She says the state has partnered with Google and will be releasing a new interface by the middle of this week.

In addition, the Labor Department hotline hours have now been expanded to seven days a week. On top of that, 300 additional workers have been hired to handle the claims on top of the 700 extras already hired.

"Just so everyone understands, at the peak of the 2008 crisis, the single largest day of claims was 13,000 in one day. We had six times that two days ago," said DeRosa.

When the system catches up, DeRosa wants you to know your missed benefits will catch up with you, and you will get your benefits going back to the date of your actual unemployment – even if there's a lag in being able to get signed-up.

To process the overwhelming flood of claims, the state Labor Department has expanded from four servers to 50 servers.