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Typically, workers who quit their jobs or get fired for cause in many states are ineligible to receive state unemployment benefits. But five states have determined that if employees lose their jobs...
Similarly, ten Florida workers also filed a lawsuit against Gov. Ron Desantis on Sunday, saying the state has a statutory obligation to pay unemployed workers the additional $300 in weekly ...
Arkansas is the latest state planning to stop some of its federally-funded unemployment benefits at the end of June. Mississippi and Arkansas become latest states to cancel federal unemployment ...
Half of the states planning to cancel the extra $300 in weekly federal unemployment benefits this month could cost their local economies $12.3 billion, according to a new study.
Unemployment insurance is funded by both federal and state payroll taxes. In most states, employers pay state and federal unemployment taxes if: (1) they paid wages to employees totaling $1,500 or more in any quarter of a calendar year, or (2) they had at least one employee during any day of a week for 20 or more weeks in a calendar year, regardless of whether those weeks were consecutive.
The EUC program allows qualified states to provide up to 47 additional weeks of federally funded unemployment compensation to people who have exhausted their regular unemployment benefits. The total expected increase in the deficit would be $6,414,000,000 over 2014-2023.
Unemployment benefits as part of the American Rescue Plan COVID-19 relief bill are slated to last at least until September, but a growing number of states are cutting them short early. See: Weekly...
Employment Division, Department of Human Resources of Oregon v. Smith, 494 U.S. 872 (1990), is a United States Supreme Court case that held that the state could deny unemployment benefits to a person fired for violating a state prohibition on the use of peyote even though the use of the drug was part of a religious ritual.