Unemployment benefits can be a financial lifeline when you lose a job, but you should know that the IRS considers them taxable income. As such, you may need to have income taxes withheld from your ...

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The basics of how unemployment insurance works, how the government decides when to extend benefits beyond 26 weeks, and how we can improve the system. The unemployment insurance, or UI system, is ...

With the massive waves of layoffs in the US federal government, along with job cuts and downsizing in the tech industry, retail, media and manufacturing, thousands of workers are unemployed for the ...

I'll give the short background here. Wife's company is trying to force everyone to sign a new non-compete agreement. The agreement is more or less designed for high level executives and imposes far ...

DUBUQUE, Iowa (KWWL) -- Governor Reynolds signed three workforce focused bills at the annual ABI conference on Thursday. One of the new laws significantly changes how unemployment works in Iowa. The ...

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