Unemployment claim computer system disruption in Colorado

The state’s computerized phone system for unemployment claims crashed, causing long hold times and significant delays recently:

Problems with CUBline on-line, where people either register an initial claim or update existing claims in order to continue collecting unemployment, came to the department’s attention on Sunday. But the computer crashes and time-outs could have started earlier than that, said Department of Labor spokesman Bill Thoennes.

The system was apparently up and running again as of yesterday, but the cause of the failure has not been found yet.