The Extended Unemployment Benefits program serves as a crucial support system for workers who have depleted their regular unemployment benefits. During times of high unemployment, these benefits ...

In an effort to tighten the criteria for unemployment benefits, Representative Chuck Edwards, a North Carolina Republican, has reintroduced the Unemployment Integrity (UI) Act. The bill aims to reform ...

The act also increased the maximum amount of time a person can collect unemployment benefits, from 20 weeks to 26 weeks.

The unemployment compensation system in the United States operates as a joint federal-state program. Unlike a direct federal unemployment program, the federal government supports states in funding and ...

Millions of federal employees are currently facing job uncertainty due to recent moves by the Trump administration, including deferred resignation offers and proposed spending freezes affecting ...

The Labor Department has a new “transformation plan” to shore up the unemployment insurance system for the next crisis after the pandemic exposed its weaknesses. It says it will need the help of ...

Michigan’s unemployment benefits will increase next week for the first time in more than two decades. Starting Wednesday, April 2, the maximum unemployment benefits a person can collect will rise from ...

During the COVID-19 recession, 22 million laid-off workers sought unemployment benefits, sparking chaos in the payment system and compounding the financial woes of jobless Americans. Five years later, ...

States and territories delivering unemployment insurance have new directions from the Labor Department to make sure that everyone entitled to benefits has a meaningful opportunity to get them. The ...

Evidence from the Maine Peer Workforce Navigator program shows that workers and government can benefit from well-designed community partnerships. Unemployment insurance (UI) benefits do not reach all ...

BOSTON (SHNS) – The account used to pay unemployment insurance benefits in Massachusetts is on track to run out of money by the end of 2027, according to a new forecast that could increase pressure on ...

Massachusetts must pay the federal government $2.1 billion over the next 10 years to resolve a debt after the state under former GOP Gov. Charlie Baker's administration mistakenly used federal ...