Unemployment benefits

In Monday’s White House press briefing, White House press secretary Jen Psaki urged Congress to act on the American Rescue Plan, noting that 11 million stand to lose unemployment benefits on March 14. Psaki also said that nearly 1 million households on unemployment insurance report that their children aren’t eating enough, and 1.5 million or more are behind on their...

Residents say their names are being used by strangers to file fraudulent unemployment claims with the Illinois Department of Employment Security and as of early November, the IDES said more than 212,000 fraudulent claims have been made since March. NBC 5’s Chris Coffey reports

President Donald Trump has signed into law a $900 billion pandemic relief package, ending days of drama over his refusal to accept the bipartisan deal.

Unemployment benefits for millions of Americans are set to lapse at midnight unless President Donald Trump signs an end-of-year COVID relief and spending bill that had been considered a done deal before his objections

With the need for unemployment assistance sky high during the coronavirus crisis, a first of a lifetime need for so many, NBC Connecticut doesn’t want you or your loved ones to be surprised by what you could owe in April.

California sent about $400 million in fraudulent unemployment benefit payments to state prisoners, a state official said Tuesday, nearly triple the amount disclosed last week and a number that could grow as a criminal investigation continues.

The Illinois Department of Employment Security has extended jobless benefits another 20 weeks as the state’s unemployment numbers continue to soar because of the coronavirus pandemic

Historic numbers of unemployment claims filed in Illinois since March has led to a historic amount of benefits being paid out over the first four months of the year, Gov. J.B. Pritzker said on Thursday. The Illinois Department of Employment Security says they’ve processed 1,006,925 initial unemployment claims from March 1 to May 2. “That’s over 1 million claims in…

May 7, 2020: Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Thursday focused on unemployment during his daily coronavirus briefing, running down the number of processed claims, a new system to handle them and the process for filing the next batch.

In one of the clearest signs of economic hardship during the coronavirus pandemic, data released Thursday by the Illinois Department of Employment Security shows a massive increase in the number of people who filed for unemployment insurance in March. The agency reported 133,763 people in the state have filed for benefits so far this month.  The number is a nearly…