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A long-delayed form of unemployment that could provide some Floridians with an extra $100 per week is finally coming online. The state Department of Economic Opportunity this week implemented a ...
Disaster Unemployment Assistance: If you lost your job or cannot work because of the hurricane, you might be eligible for disaster unemployment assistance. Apply at floridajobs.org.
The release added, “Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA) is available to Florida businesses and residents in FEMA disaster-declared counties whose employment or self-employment was lost or ...
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.
Initial claims should not be confused with the number of people who actually receive unemployment benefits. For one, initial claims don't include continued claims—individuals who claim benefits for additional weeks of unemployment beyond their initial claim. Additionally, not all claimants will actually receive unemployment benefits. [1]
Unemployment benefits, also called unemployment insurance, unemployment payment, unemployment compensation, or simply unemployment, are payments made by governmental bodies to unemployed people. Depending on the country and the status of the person, those sums may be small, covering only basic needs, or may compensate the lost time ...
The unemployment rate (U-6) is a wider measure of unemployment, which treats additional workers as unemployed (e.g., those employed part-time for economic reasons and certain "marginally attached" workers outside the labor force, who have looked for a job within the last year, but not within the last 4 weeks).
(The Center Square) — According to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the seasonally-adjusted jobless rate in Florida was 3.4% in November, 0.1 %age points higher than last month ...