Benefits vary based on state, including the maximum amount a person can earn each week and how many weeks they get payments.

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 ...

In May the Trump administration canceled $29 million in federal funds that were awarded to fix Wisconsin unemployment insurance system.

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 ...

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 ...

Labor Department deploys specialized "strike team" to California over alleged unemployment fraud and $21 billion in improper ...

"No UI" means the experience migrates from screens to systems: context, events, verified identity and automation that triggers the right outcome before anyone has to ask.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Michigan workers who received unemployment insurance benefits during the COVID-19 pandemic may owe that money back. Michigan's ...