Unemployment insurance offers weekly cash benefits if you're laid off without fault. Eligibility requires not quitting or being fired for cause, and state rules vary. Benefit amounts and duration ...

The latest ratio of 0.13% means that out of 10,000 workers, 13 made an initial application for unemployment insurance ...

States provide unemployment insurance (UI) benefits to involuntarily unemployed workers. UI benefits typically replace 35–40 percent of a worker’s weekly income. Normally, states provide UI benefits ...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics will release September unemployment numbers on Friday, and if the trend from the last several months continues, the unemployment rate will hover just over 9 percent.

The drop in unemployment claims is good news, but other indicators show that few jobs have been created over the past few ...

Just like health insurance, unemployment insurance also requires a waiting period of 30-90 days after buying insurance coverage.(Unsplash) Unemployment is not only the talk of the town in the field of ...

The U.S. labor market "continues to come back to earth," an economist told USA TODAY this month, with 187,000 jobs added in August. Unemployment also rose in August to 3.8%, the highest since February ...

Initial filings for unemployment benefits in California rose last week compared with the week prior, the U.S. Department of ...

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Unemployment insurance benefits were expanded substantially to help overcome the pandemic labor market shock in early 2020. However, improved labor market conditions in early 2021 prompted many states ...

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

The U.S. Department of Labor will send a specialized team to Minnesota to review the state’s Unemployment Insurance Program after reports of widespread fraud.