CHICAGO (CBS)-- A new roadblock has been thrown up for contract workers getting unemployment benefits. Many were notified Tuesday that the benefits they are expecting are being cut off. And as CBS 2 ...

Oregonians on Pandemic Unemployment Assistance will still get their regular weekly benefits despite the program’s late extension, but there is still no telling when they might pocket the money. The ...

Yohanna Gerges, 48, was working as a full-time Lyft and Uber driver in Albuquerque before the pandemic began. But in the spring of 2020, business dropped sharply and he developed a lung infection that ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Hundreds of thousands of Michiganders are set to lose their unemployment benefits after Christmas. Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) runs out on December 26. In the most ...

Congress is currently discussing the fate of the $600-per-week federal unemployment bonuses set to expire this week. A key Republican objection has been the bonuses’ resulting in many unemployed ...

Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA), established under the March Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, has provided almost $1.7 billion in benefits to over 323,000 Georgians ...

HONOLULU(KHON2) — More than five months after the state’s first shutdown left nearly a quarter of Hawaii unemployed and the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations (DLIR) overwhelmed, many are ...

Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly answers questions from reporters during a news conference in which she announces that the state will shut down its system for processing unemployment claims to combat fraud.

With the Congressional Budget Office recently reporting that our nation’s annual budget deficit for fiscal 2020 will hit $3.3 trillion, the largest deficit since World War II, this is a good time to ...

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Pandemic Unemployment Assistance — commonly known as PUA — has returned, after the CARES Act program had expired at the end of December. Online. Gig workers, freelancers and self-employed people in ...

Since the pandemic, many workers have faced a difficult choice: taking a job that may increase their risk of exposure to the coronavirus or turning down income they may need to cover the bills. Those ...