WASHINGTON — The Labor Department demanded Thursday that banks freeze almost $1 billion in fraudulently obtained unemployment ...
Keith Sonderling told Senate appropriators that the $25M funding request for DOL’s unemployment-insurance program will help ...
The number of Americans filing new applications for unemployment benefits unexpectedly declined in the week ended May 16, ...
The grant dollars — which the agency has been doling out since Congress allocated funding for fraud and access work in 2021 — don’t align with department priorities anymore, Labor says. Labor State ...
The Department of Labor is cutting roughly $400 million in grants meant to provide states with funding to modernize their unemployment insurance systems. The department confirmed the cuts in a ...
The U.S. is in what economists are calling a “low-hire, low-fire" state, which means many people who are out of work are ...
Julie Su, the acting Department of Labor secretary, has often been scrutinized for her role in California during the pandemic. She sat down with Nextgov/FCW to talk about unemployment four years later ...
The state Department of Labor is raising the maximum unemployment insurance benefit rate from $504 per week to $869 per week beginning next Monday, and benefit checks will reflect the change the ...