Cuomo’s Unemployment Bungles

Maybe Gov. Cuomo just doesn’t want New Yorkers to get President Trump’s jobless benefits. The state’s lame excuses for its failure to ensure those payments actually reach people who file claims are just the latest evidence.

Democrats in Congress are blocking efforts to renew the $600-a-week federal unemployment bonus that expired on July 31, holding it hostage for other outlays they say are vital.

When Trump bypassed Congress to OK a $300-per-week bonus, Cuomo called it “laughable” and “impossible” — and didn’t even bother applying for it on behalf of the state’s jobless.

His initial gripe was that the state needed to come up with $100 from its own pocket — but he didn’t jump in when Trump waived that requirement, as other governors did.

Indeed, it took a Post report by Bernadette Hogan and Bruce Golding on Aug. 21 — two weeks after Trump’s order — to shame Albany

into even seeking the federal cash. By then, jobless workers elsewhere were already theirs.

Yet Team Cuomo didn’t plan on distributing funds for four weeks, prompting White House charges of foot-dragging. And when Cuomo announced Friday that jobless New Yorkers had at last gotten three weeks of back payments, it turned out that many actually hadn’t.

KeyBank, which is processing payments, admitted a “three-hour delay” and vowed to complete the transfers that day, but by Monday, workers hadn’t gotten paid.

It was again the Cuomo team’s fault, the bank said: The glitch was “resolved,” and unpaid claimants “are experiencing a separate issue” and should contact the state.

Perhaps it’s just massive incompetence, but it sure begins to look like Cuomo’s minions just refuse to put a priority on help for jobless New Yorkers simply because the benefit carries Trump’s fingerprints.