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During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Puerto Rico, the United States passed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES), which included a broad unemployment benefits program, the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA), for any individual who was out of work due to the pandemic.
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]
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...
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 ...
Weekly unemployment claims are seen as a proxy for the number of U.S. layoffs in a given week. Applications for unemployment benefits fell by 9,000 to 218,000 for the week ending Feb. 3, the Labor ...
(Under the nonreduction rule such an agreement does not apply with respect to a state whose method for computing regular unemployment compensation under state law has been modified to make the average weekly unemployment compensation benefit paid on or after June 2, 2010, less than what would have been paid before June 2, 2010.) [4]
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 ...
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 ...