Not sure what the problem is you are referring to but...
1) the methodology of signing up for it and filing for it is a lot better than California. In California it is insane trying to call in as there is no "call queue" to wait for an attendant, and therefore you have to continue to call in to their voicemail multiple times a minute for sometimes hours, which is a complete time sink, and also is probably blowing a hole in California's state budget, as I was told by someone I talked to that a certain phone company is given a nice fee for each call that is placed through that voicemail which at multiple fees per minute when a single person can spend hours making such calls can be a big sum just for one person. Oregon's call queuing is a lot better comparatively speaking. You can also file online a lot more easily when California requires you use the U.S. mail to file your weekly claims.
2) One thing of note that isn't talked about a lot is that once you go through your 26 weeks of basic unemployment in Oregon, and subsequently through all of your federal extensions, there is an additional Oregon extension that comes after that, but which has some additional requirements like logging your job contacts online in addition to the other info when you make a claim. Not sure though if the state budget being more in jeopardy might have them pulling back on this later though.
Also, if you work a job in the middle of your claim it can sometimes cause the unemployment office putting our benefits on hold and saying that "you may qualify for a change of your unemployment claim" given the more recent experience. I went through that three times, even tough each time they came up with the same conclusion that filing a new claim for the brief employment experience would have the payments substantially less than extending the original claim, and therefore invalidates that "new claim" and they in each case reverted back to extending the original claim. Don't know if that was your problem, but you have to go through calling in to straighten those situations out, as it will repeat, even if that situation is found subsequently to not have been applicable.
I'm glad that just recently I returned to the land of the employed and no longer have to worry about this stuff. Good luck.
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