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Michigan's Unemployment Insurance Agency will pay $55 million and make changes to how it processes claims as part of a settlement reached in a lawsuit from several pandemic-era unemployment ...
More on the settlement: Michigan's unemployment agency settles lawsuit for $55 million, will make changes More on claimants waiting on benefits: Years post-pandemic, some out-of-work Michiganders ...
The Emergency Unemployment Compensation 2008 (EUC08) is an extension of unemployment benefits authorized under federal law. The Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 (enacted on Feb 22, 2012) modified EUC08. [4] [5] Claimants who filed an initial claim effective on or after May 7, 2006 are potentially eligible for EUC08.
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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 most recent extension was provided by the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, which extended unemployment benefits until the end of 2013. [2] The United States Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the average (mean) duration of unemployment in weeks was 37.2 weeks in November 2013. [3]
The Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence Index for this month climbed to a reading of 102, up from 97.5 in April. Americans of all age groups felt better about the economy, the survey noted.
A Targeted Employment Area (TEA) is a region of the United States for which the threshold for investment for an investor to be eligible for the EB-5 visa is $500,000 or $900,000 (as opposed to the usual $1,800,000 threshold for the US as a whole), with a judge striking down the increase of the amount from $500,000 to $900,000 but USCIS website continuing to state it as $900,000.