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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.
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 ...
Unemployment in the US by State (June 2023) The list of U.S. states and territories by unemployment rate compares the seasonally adjusted unemployment rates by state and territory, sortable by name, rate, and change. Data are provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in its Geographic Profile of Employment and Unemployment publication.
In 2022-23 the state paid out $135.6 million in unemployment benefits out of the state’s unemployment insurance trust fund. If the 12-week cap was in place, the state would have saved $34.6 ...
In 2020, then-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a law reducing the waiting period for striking employees to receive unemployment benefits from seven weeks to two weeks. Story continues below photo ...
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 New Jersey Civil Service Commission is an independent body within the New Jersey state government under the auspices of the department. Initially constituted in the late-1940s, pursuant to P.L. 1948, c.446, as the Department of Labor and Industry, the department is one of 16 executive branch departments in New Jersey state government.
By Seanna Adcox COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- A state with chronically high unemployment is making it tougher for the jobless to draw benefits by trying to force people to take lower-wage jobs and making ...