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Weekly unemployment benefits provided by the state will be increased from a maximum of $350 to $600. Gov. Cooper increases NC unemployment benefits after Helene. Here’s what’s available.
Those qualifying for Disaster Unemployment Assistance, in the 39 declared counties, will be represented in the dashboard data. The dashboard is also expected to help lawmakers and stakeholders.
North Carolina's state unemployment benefits max out at 12 weeks. As of Oct. 10, at least 14,000 WNC residents have applied for disaster unemployment assistance, though state officials say the ...
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.
In the United States, there are 50 state unemployment insurance programs plus one each in the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and United States Virgin Islands. Though policies vary by state, unemployment benefits generally pay eligible workers as high as US$1,015 in Massachusetts to a low as US$235 per week maximum in Mississippi.
These services are primarily provided through state and local workforce development systems. President Joe Biden nominated labor lawyer and Florida politician José Javier Rodríguez for the position of Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training, the agency's leader, on June 2, 2021; he was confirmed by the Senate on March 21, 2024.
The leader of the North Carolina agency tasked with providing aid to unemployed workers says payment delays aren’t expected to be brought up to federal standards in a year.
The Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW, aka ES-202) is a program of the Bureau of Labor Statistics in the US Department of Labor that produces a comprehensive tabulation of employment and wage information for workers covered by state unemployment insurance (UI) laws, as reported to state workforce agencies (SWAs [1]) and the Unemployment Compensation for Federal Employees (UCFE ...