When an employee is laid off or fired, they can apply for unemployment insurance (UI) to help them get by while looking for another job. Whether or not that person receives benefits is up to the state ...

Chairman LaHood, Ranking Member Davis, and members of the Work and Welfare Subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to submit testimony on potential improvements to the nation’s unemployment ...

Paul Toomey is the President of Geographic Solutions. He's an expert in labor market data, workforce development and unemployment insurance. The pandemic exposed a significant weakness in the outdated ...

Lawmakers in at least six states are pushing to make striking employees eligible for unemployment benefits rather than being disqualified for participating in the work stoppage, as is the case in all ...

It sounds like a good problem to have: receiving more than expected in your state’s weekly jobless benefit check. But experts say a state overpaying your unemployment insurance (UI) could turn out to ...

A surge of unemployment insurance applications during the pandemic overwhelmed state offices. (Lev Radin/Shutterstock) State UI agencies have begun addressing an array of technical shortcomings, but ...

Unemployment benefits would be drastically expanded in some states under a newly introduced bill.

Renewed fears of a U.S. recession have put a spotlight on unemployment. However, the system that workers rely on to collect unemployment benefits is at risk of buckling — as it did during the Covid-19 ...

Though the experience of being laid off is one many Americans can relate to, the process can be daunting and confusing and differs from state to state. The multiple websites, application portals and ...