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Right now, 10.1 million Americans are unemployed, according to the Labor Department. Many of those people are relying on unemployment insurance to get by, and for some, those benefits will soon be...
If you've recently lost your job in Illinois, you may be eligible for Illinois Unemployment Insurance benefits. This is a guide to filing your claim for Illinois unemployment benefits. Since each ...
The Illinois Department of Employment Security (IDES) is the code department [1] [2] of the Illinois state government that administers state unemployment benefits, runs the employment service and Illinois Job Bank, and publishes labor market information. [3] As of 12 January 2015, Jeffrey D. Mays was the Director of Employment Security. [4]
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.
Before 2011, every state in the country offered as many as 26 weeks of unemployment insurance, according to a 2022 Congressional Research Service report, but the Great Recession changed everything.
Illinois began paying out on Monday the extra $300 in weekly federal unemployment benefits contained in the latest pandemic relief legislation. The federal supplement runs for 11 weeks, through ...