Unemployment Benefits

Following a further drop in jobless aid applications last week, the number of Americans receiving unemployment benefits fell to a 52-year low, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The United States Labor Department said on February…

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is scrambling to pay tax refunds on unemployment benefits to thousands of Americans before the end of the year as the agency tries to clear a huge backlog of claims. The unemployment tax refund is high…

State unemployment officials report that about one million state residents may have to repay unemployment benefits back. The Employment Development Department (EDD) reports that newly-enacted federal rules require people show proof they…

San Francisco - Amidst the height of the pandemic, California’s economy is slowly turning back to life as it gained about a million payroll jobs in the past year. In contrast, about three million of them are still collecting unemployment…

New York hospitals on Monday (Sept 27) began firing or suspending healthcare workers for defying a state order to get the Covid-19 vaccine, and resulting staff shortages prompted some hospitals to postpone elective surgeries or curtail…

The State of New York will not extend federal pandemic unemployment programs that expired over Labor Day weekend.  The programs that have expired are Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation, the…

As many as 800,000 New Yorkers will have to prepare and adjust their finances following the report that came out stating that many of them will lose their unemployment benefits after Labor Day. According to a study released on Thursday by…

The extended care act is expiring on September 6. This means the following three extended unemployment benefits will not be active: ✅Pandemic Emergency Unemployment assistance (PUA). ✅Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC).…