Posts in 'Unemployment Compensation'

The Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network Employment Law Groups will be presenting its 2015 Employment/Unemployment Compensation Training on Wednesday, June 24, 2015 at the Dauphin County Bar Association in Harrisburg. A limited number of hotel rooms are available at a special rate to PLAN program staff

The Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry (L&I) is partnering with the United States Department of Labor (USDOL) to bring employers a solution to help businesses efficiently and accurately respond to unemployment compensation (UC) information requests and to speed the processing of claims. The

Seeking to boost the economy and provide relief for the more than 2 million job seeking Americans who have lost emergency unemployment insurance coverage since December 28, 2013, a group of 10 U.S. Senators led by Jack Reed (D-RI) and Dean Heller (R-NV) have announced an agreement to reauthorize

The number of long-term unemployed Americans without access to jobless aid hit the two million mark this week as a result of Congress' failure to reauthorize the emergency unemployment insurance program. An additional one million children in affected families have been harmed by the cutoff.

The National Employment Law Project (NELP) will be hosting a webinar entitled, Protecting Your State UI Program in 2014: Responding to Likely Challenges, on Tuesday, February 4, 2014 at 2:00 pm Eastern. Despite the slow economic recovery, dozens of states have proposed or enacted laws that chip away

With only 10 days left on the House legislative calendar before the Congressional holiday recess, a group of lawmakers has issued an urgent call to reauthorize federal jobless aid for the long-term unemployed as Representative Sandy Levin (D-MI) and Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) announced new legislation

With federal jobless aid for the long-term unemployed set to expire at the end of December, the White House today announced its support for reauthorizing the program through 2014. At a public forum, the director of the White House’s National Economic Council, Gene Sperling, stated, “With an

In the wake of October’s harmful government shutdown, the nation now faces another critical deadline: the looming December 31st shutdown of federal unemployment insurance for more than two million long-term unemployed workers. If Congress fails to reauthorize the federally-funded Emergency

​Employees of government contractors who have been furloughed as a result of the ongoing federal government shutdown are legally entitled to apply for and receive unemployment insurance, the National Employment Law Project emphasized in a press release on October 10. The federal contract workers

The U.S. Department of Labor has announced awards totaling approximately $176.4 million to 40 state workforce agencies for Unemployment Insurance program integrity, performance and system improvement projects. Pennsylvania was among the states receiving awards to support program integrity. The grant