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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 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.
For job seekers, TWC offers career development information, job search resources, training programs, and administers the unemployment benefits program. TWC's online job-matching system, workintexas.com, features thousands of opportunities for Texas jobseekers and qualified applicants for Texas employers.
In Texas, for example, if you’re still collecting unemployment while you have an overpaid balance due, the Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) will collect the weekly UI benefits and apply them to ...
The state's unemployment insurance trust fund is the smallest in the country, and is running dangerously low, containing only $1.3 million -- about 0.1% of total state wages.
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In the United States, there are 50 state unemployment insurance programs plus one each in the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and United States Virgin Islands. Though policies vary by state, unemployment benefits generally pay eligible workers as high as US$1,015 in Massachusetts to a low as US$235 per week maximum in Mississippi.
The Labor Department says weekly applications for unemployment aid fell 3,000 to a seasonally adjusted 302,000. The less volatile How states fared on unemployment benefit claims