The Georgia Department of Labor will open a new office in downtown Dalton in October that will employ 45 people, Commissioner Michael Thurmond announced this morning.
Workers at the Disability Adjudication Services Program office at 500 E. Walnut Ave. will coordinate with the Social Security Administration to make disability benefits determinations for state residents. The closest office for Northwest Georgia residents now is in the Atlanta area.
“This will be the first disability adjudication office in North Georgia,” Thurmond said. “It will enable us to provide more convenient service to residents of North Georgia while creating much-needed jobs in a region that has been hard hit by the recession.”
For complete details, see tomorrow’s Chattanooga Times Free Press.