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These are some of the changes coming to New Jersey’s online unemployment application process, meant to make it easier, after the strains the beleaguered system underwent during the onset of the ...
The system has improved since being deluged during the COVID-19 pandemic, but more than 700,000 face barriers to obtain unemployment insurance NJ unemployment system improved but over 700K still ...
New Jersey's latest unemployment rate is still a far cry from the 15.4% unemployment seen in May 2020 during the COVID-19 business closures, which itself was New Jersey's highest unemployment rate ...
Empty shelves in a New Jersey store in March 2020. On March 2, the eventual patient zero—a physician assistant who treated patients in several clinics in the New York City area—had a bad cough and heart palpitations, and went to an urgent care clinic where he tested negative for flu and strep (COVID-19 tests were not available at the clinic).
Unemployment extensions are created by passing new legislation at the federal level, often referred to as an "unemployment extension bill". This new legislation is introduced and passed during times of high or above average unemployment rates. Unemployment extensions are set during a date range in order to estimate their federal cost.
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 2023 N.J. had some 63,000 filled job positions that it didn’t have a year ago, but that wasn't enough to keep the unemployment rate from hiking. In 2023, New Jersey saw the highest increase ...
In December 2020, the New York State Legislature passed a state moratorium on evictions. [11] In May 2021, the legislature extended the moratorium until August 31. [12]The Supreme Court struck down a provision of the state moratorium that protected people who filed a form declaring economic hardship, rather than providing evidence in court.