What Can Disqualify You from Collecting Unemployment?
What will disqualify you from collecting unemployment? There’s one thing worse than losing your job: Losing your job and not being able to collect unemployment insurance benefits. Here are some [...]
Why States are Changing Unemployment Benefits
Unemployment insurance benefits provided a valuable lifeline to Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic. “As many as 46 million individuals received unemployment payments in 2020, representing 1 out of every 4 [...]
What is Blockchain Technology & Could it Help Prevent Unemployment Insurance Fraud?
In an attempt to help thwart unemployment fraud – estimated to have been as much as $87.3 billion nationwide -- California assemblyman Jordan Cunningham (R-Templeton) has put forth AB 2781, [...]
What is Frictional Unemployment & How does it Affect the Economy?
What is "Frictional Unemployment?" When you studied physics in high school or college, you may remember getting homework assignments asking you to calculate the force of two objects on each [...]
Why Advocates Want to Expand the Excluded Workers Fund
Not everyone who loses their job is eligible to receive unemployment insurance benefits, but several states have been taking steps to address that. Generally, these workers are referred to as [...]
The Federal Government Helps States Improve Unemployment with ‘Tiger Teams’
Some states are turning to tigers to improve their unemployment insurance systems. Tiger Teams, that is. The U.S. Department of Labor announced on August 21, 2021, that it was creating [...]