Posts in 'Unemployment Compensation'

Department of Labor & Industry (L&I) Acting Secretary Jennifer Berrier today announced eligible Pennsylvanians can begin applying for the new Mixed Earners Unemployment Compensation (MEUC) program starting this Sunday, February 14, 2021. Payments will be retroactive and will begin in several weeks

Department of Labor & Industry (L&I) Acting Secretary Jennifer Berrier provided an update on the recent Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC) and Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) implementations in Pennsylvania.

Today, Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry (L&I) Acting Secretary Jennifer Berrier announced that payments for the Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC) program in the new federal CARES Act extension will resume the week of January 24. "Since receiving the information we needed

Today, Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry (L&I) Acting Secretary Jennifer Berrier announced that payments for the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) program in the new federal CARES Act extension are resuming.

The Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry (L&I) Secretary Jerry Oleksiak has announced that beginning Saturday, Nov. 7, 2020, the department will temporarily expand its ability to backdate Unemployment Compensation (UC) claims from six weeks to up to 52 weeks. The change will allow L&I staff

Join Julia Simon-Mishel, Philadelphia Legal Assistance, Andrew Stettner, The Century Foundation, and Michele Evermore, National Employment Law Project, for a webinar entitled Centering Workers—How to Modernize Unemployment Insurance Technology, as they share highlights from their soon-to-be-released

The Department of Labor & Industry's (L&I) Office of Unemployment Compensation (UC) has updated its UC Live Chat feature to include a virtual assistant to provide immediate assistance in general questions and guidance on UC-related information. In addition, UC has expanded access so that employers

On September 9, 2020 the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) notified the Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry that the last week for Lost Wages Assistance (LWA) benefit program is September 5, 2020 due to the fund's depletion. This is not a decision of the Department of Labor &

Department of Labor & Industry (L&I) Secretary Jerry Oleksiak today announced Pennsylvania will get nearly $1.5 billion to provide an extra $300 per week to eligible unemployed workers through the temporary federal Lost Wages Assistance (LWA) program, administered by the Federal Emergency Management

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled in this case that an unemployed worker who had already qualified for unemployment compensation benefits cannot be disqualified as “self-employed” when he then starts driving for Uber.