A former state of Illinois subcontractor has been charged with orchestrating a fraud scheme to obtain $4.7 million in ...

It’s a depressingly familiar story: taxpayers lost a massive amount of money to waste, fraud, and abuse during the pandemic. On unemployment benefit checks alone, official government estimates suggest ...

Black workers in Georgia who lost jobs during the pandemic were more likely than White ones to be denied unemployment benefits and suffered disproportionately when the state withdrew early from a ...

Federal policymakers would benefit from reviewing a now-dusty 2006 Government Accountability Office report titled “Unemployment Insurance: Factors Associated with Benefit Receipt.” Behind its bland ...

Around 100,000 Californians who were previously denied unemployment benefits through the federal Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) program may now be retroactively eligible. The California ...

On Feb. 25, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) clarified in guidance that laid-off individuals who refuse work because of COVID-19 safety concerns may be eligible for unemployment benefits. "For many ...

About 1 million Californians who got unemployment payments from the pandemic-related federal benefit program now have to prove to the state they had a prior work history – or face paying back benefits ...