If you lose your job, you may be eligible to collect unemployment benefits. Each state pays its own benefits—those benefits ...

The bill would barely impact the state’s unemployment fund, they say: The Oregon Employment Department estimated that if ...

Weekly applications for jobless benefits are considered a proxy for layoffs, and have remained mostly in a range between ...

A month after losing her job at the Department of Veterans Affairs, Corinne Bazarnyj is still waiting to be approved for ...

President Donald Trump has ordered federal agencies to share data across the government, part of his crusade to eliminate the ...

Unemployment benefits are subject to federal income taxes, but they're not automatically withheld from the payments.

It’s never a good time to lose your job — but now may be an especially bad time to get laid off in New York. That’s because the state’s unemployment benefit has been frozen for six years, so the ...

Initial filings for unemployment benefits in Utah dropped last week compared with the week prior, the U.S. Department of ...

New Jersey and New York are the only states that currently allow striking workers to collect unemployment. The legislation also would extend unemployment to striking public employees in Oregon.

As a lifelong Democrat and a former union member, I wholeheartedly support the rights of union workers. But Senate Bill 916 would tip the balance too far in favor of striking employees by providing ...

South Carolina is famously stingy with unemployment benefits. Some, like Sen. Shane Massey and Sean Bennett, are considering ...

Weekly applications for jobless benefits are considered a proxy for layoffs, and have remained mostly in a range between ...