Kentucky is the latest state to offer hefty cash incentives to persuade people to return to the workforce as the economy begins to bounce back from the shock of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to ABC News, Gov. Andy Beshear announced a new plan earlier this week to pay 15,000 Kentuckians …
Read More »Florida Governor Says Residents Receiving Unemployment Will Need To Start Looking For Work Again
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis told state residents receiving unemployment benefits that they will soon be required to prove they are looking for employment. The requirement was waived amid the coronavirus pandemic. The state saw unemployment rates spike to 14% as businesses shut down in April of 2020. However, by March …
Read More »$1 Billion In False Unemployment Claims Paid To Inmates In California; “The Inmates Are Mocking Us”
In California, authorities recently discovered that thousands of inmates throughout the state have carried out an elaborate unemployment benefits scam that may have totaled $1 billion. Scott Peterson, who murdered his wife and unborn son in 2002, is among the inmates who defrauded the government by filing false unemployment claims. …
Read More »Unemployment Aid For Almost 14 Million Americans Will Expire The Day After Christmas
Almost 14 million Americans are receiving unemployment assistance from pandemic programs like the emergency CARES Act. According to the Labor Department, those benefits will expire the day after Christmas. The national average for weekly benefits was $317 in October. After the benefits expire, many Americans will struggle with paying for food …
Read More »Another 778,000 Americans Filed First-Time Unemployment Claims Last Week
While Americans persistently wait for a stimulus deal to be negotiated within Congress, the job market continues to show minimum improvement in unemployment rates. Just last week, 778,000 people filed for unemployment benefits for the first time, on a seasonally adjusted basis, reports say. That number is 43,000 more than …
Read More »Oregon Woman Asked To Give Back Unemployment Benefits After Waiting Several Months
In Portland, Oregon, after a school bus driver waited months to receive her unemployment benefits, is now panicking after she recently learned that she needs to pay it all back. In May, Ashley Sterling was laid off after it was announced that schools would stay closed due to the pandemic, …
Read More »USC Football Player Filed For Unemployment After His Money Dried Up Amid Coronavirus, School Suspends Him And Now He’s Under Investigation For Fraud
According to the Los Angeles Times, the University of Southern California football player Munir McClain was suspended last month after being seemingly accused of committing fraud related to the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program. Munir’s mother, Shan McClain, says her son was suspended from the school back in the middle of …
Read More »Florida Governor Says The Unemployment System Is Designed To Discourage People From Applying
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has admitted what most Floridians already knew: the state’s unemployment system sucks. During an interview Tuesday with CBS Miami, the Pro-Trump governor expressed his disdain with the state’s troubled unemployment system, implying that he believed the system was designed to discourage people from seeking the benefits …
Read More »Extra Unemployment Benefits Could Be Reduced To $300 Weekly
Unemployed workers who were forced out of work due to the coronavirus pandemic will begin to receive an extra $200 or $300 a week in unemployment benefits, a huge difference from the current $600-a-week policy that will expire this month. The prior relief bill took effect in March. This gave …
Read More »The End Is Near — The $600 A Week Unemployment Benefits Will Stop July 25
Due to the pandemic, more than 40 million Americans found themselves without income. After this week, more than 25 million people will be affected once the $600 a week Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation benefit expires. “It will expose more of the real pain of mass unemployment, just as many states …
Read More »30 Million Americans Have Filed For Unemployment Since Mid-March
First-time claims for unemployment benefits totaled 3.8 million last week, which brings the overall total to 30 million Americans who have filed since the COVID-19 outbreak hit hard in the U.S. in March. According to CNN, the total number of first-time claims over the past six weeks is now around …
Read More »Another 4.4 Million People Filed For Unemployment Benefits Last Week; Total Layoffs Since Outbreak Reach More Than 26 Million
For the fifth straight week, millions of American workers have applied for unemployment benefits, to seek relief from the financial downturn caused by the coronavirus pandemic. According to CNBC, 4.4 million people claimed first-time unemployment benefits in the week ending April 18th, as more than 26 million people become unemployed …
Read More »U.S. Unemployment Claims Top 20 Million In Four Weeks
Nearly 5 million more people filed for first-time unemployment benefits last week, and now, a total of 22 million people are jobless, and a once-booming economy is now on the brink of a crisis. According to NBC News, the data is still limited, as state unemployment offices continue to struggle …
Read More »U.S. Unemployment Claims Reach A Record 6.6 Million
Millions of Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week, as businesses continue to lay off and furlough workers in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. According to CNN, a record high of 6.6 million Americans have filed for unemployment benefits for the week of March 28th. This number is nearly …
Read More »A Record 3.3 Million Americans Have Filed For Unemployment As Covid-19 Slams U.S. Economy
The staggering numbers are in. 3.3 million people filed claims for unemployment in the United States in last week alone, as the Covid-19 pandemic shut down large parts of America’s economy. According to the Washington Post, the labor department provided the number of new jobless claims filed by individuals seeking …
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