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Disaster Unemployment Assistance offers up to 6 months of payments, much longer than North Carolina's regular maximum assistance of 12 weeks.
Here's a look at how weekly unemployment claims changed in North Carolina last week compared with the week prior.
He signed legislation which made North Carolina the 8th state to cut unemployment benefits since the 2007 start of the Great Recession. In addition to cutting maximum weekly unemployment benefits by 35%, the state reduced the maximum number of weeks of assistance to between 12 and 20, down from 26.
North Carolina unemployment: 3.3% Year to year, 3,571 more people working compared to October 2022. 6,833 unemployed individuals in the region as of October 2023.
In addition to cutting maximum weekly unemployment benefits by 35%, the legislation reduced the maximum number of weeks of assistance to between 12 and 20, down from 26. This prevented 170,000 North Carolinians from benefiting from federal emergency extended benefits, which required a minimum of 26 weeks of state support.
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS or DHHS) is a large state government agency in the U.S. state of North Carolina, analogous to the United States Department of Health and Human Services. [3] The NCDHHS has more than 18,000 employees.
It sounds like a good problem to have: receiving more than expected in your state’s weekly jobless benefit check. But experts say a state overpaying your unemployment insurance (UI) could turn ...
In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the system of unemployment benefits was expanded in such a way that it enabled self-employed people to get weekly checks. Few safeguards were in place to prevent ineligible people from getting these checks. [4] This led to massive fraud, reaching around $20 billion, [5] "perhaps the largest fraud wave in ...