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In the third quarter of 2022, the average weekly unemployment benefit was $385, CNBC reported. Weekly benefit amounts and weeks of entitlement are based on the wages you were paid and the amount ...
Initial claims for state unemployment benefits increased by 6,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 225,000 for the week ended Sept. 28. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast 220,000 claims ...
The DLHR is responsible for setting and implementing public policy in the areas of labor relations, occupational safety, unemployment insurance benefits, re-employment services, and human resources training in the U.S. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. The Department is also responsible for some economic statistics. [1]
The four-week average of weekly claims, which quiets some of the week-to-week volatility, rose by 1,250 to 225,500. Weekly applications for jobless benefits are considered representative of U.S ...
In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the system of unemployment benefits was expanded in such a way that it enabled self-employed people to get weekly checks. Few safeguards were in place to prevent ineligible people from getting these checks. [4] This led to massive fraud, reaching around $20 billion, [5] "perhaps the largest fraud wave in ...
Louisiana Workforce Commission (LWC) is a state agency of Louisiana, headquartered in Baton Rouge. [1] It was previously called the Louisiana Department of Labor. [2] The name changed in 2008.
Weekly jobless claims unexpectedly fell last week in a sign that turnover in the labor market remains low. New data from the Department of Labor showed 227,000 initial jobless claims were filed in ...
Though experts say the job market is very healthy in America, and remains one of the major keys to preventing a full-blown recession, there are still a large number of unemployed workers across the...