OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Employment Security Department Commissioner Suzi LeVine says an initial backlog of claims of people who had not received payment for unemployment benefits between March and June has been resolved.

The agency is now working through about 30,000 other cases of people who have applied since mid-June and haven’t received payment or had previously been paid and had their payments halted.

LeVine didn’t give a time frame on when the remainder will be resolved. More than 1.2 million people have filed claims for unemployment since early March when the pandemic job losses began, and the state has paid out more than $8.6 billion in benefits.