More than 21 million Americans are claiming some form of unemployment insurance. The number of unemployed Americans who have been out of work six months or more increased by almost 40 percent last ...

Section 2107 of the CARES act creates the "Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation" program, which provides up to 13 additional weeks of federally financed UI payments for individuals who exhaust ...

Unemployment insurance programs created by Congress and administered by the Labor Department to support workers during the COVID pandemic became a gold mine for fraudsters to the tune of tens of ...

The Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program provided payments for freelancers, the self-employed, independent contractors and certain people affected by the outbreak, while the Pandemic Emergency ...

More than $60 billion may have been paid out in fraudulent unemployment insurance benefits during the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a report released Monday by the US Government Accountability ...

A financial lifeline for millions of Americans who lost their jobs when the coronavirus pandemic brought the economy to a halt in the spring is coming to an end this weekend: The extra $600 a week in ...

For the most part, pandemic-era unemployment programs stopped paying out in 2021. Some people are still receiving pandemic unemployment payments, but those are for claims made during the time the ...

The Virginia Employment Commission has launched a new application portal to the federal Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation benefits program. This program provides up to an additional 13 ...

Editor’s Note: The article has been updated to reflect that the lawsuit is over a range of federal cuts to programs in states Gov. Josh Shapiro has joined a new lawsuit against the Trump ...