Posts in 'Unemployment Compensation'

The Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry has established www.JobGateway.pa.gov as the job-matching web site where UC claimants will go to register for work search. Work search is a requirement of receiving UC benefits and a recently approved a regulation requires claimants to register on

Governor Tom Corbett has signed into law House Bill 26, a fiscally-responsible, four-year program aimed to improve the quality, efficiency and timeliness of the state's unemployment compensation (UC) operations. Due to significant reductions in federal funds for the administration of UC programs

State Treasurer Rob McCord today reminded those receiving unemployment compensation or workers’ compensation payments through a debit card to activate their new gold-colored card as soon as they receive it. Recipients must activate their new gold cards to access future payments made to their account

Pennsylvania unemployment prepaid card ranks as one of the best in the country. Improvements in state unemployment prepaid cards are saving unemployed workers millions in fees, according to a new survey by the National Consumer Law Center (NCLC). But some states still refuse to offer their workers

Treasurer asks current cardholders to verify their addresses to avoid delays in receiving a new card. State Treasurer Rob McCord has announced significant improvements to the debit card program that Treasury uses to disburse unemployment and workers’ compensation payments – saving individual

The economy added 114,000 jobs in September, and the unemployment rate dropped to 7.8 percent, according to the monthly jobs report released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. “Today’s report is good news for the economy and good news for America’s workers,” said Christine Owens, executive

More than six million long-term unemployed have already reached the end of their jobless benefits. Unless Congress acts before the end of the year, two million more jobless face an immediatecut-off from the only remaining federal unemployment insurance program at the end of December It's a crisis of

Without Congressional Action, Stark Cut-off Could Expose Millions to Greater Economic Instability Americans who lose their jobs this week and hereafter will only have access to jobless aid provided by their states - 26 weeks in most cases - and will not be eligible for any federal unemployment

Long-term unemployed workers in a growing list of states are being abruptly cut from federal unemployment insurance, a new analysis from the National Employment Law Project shows. Due to reductions Congress enacted earlier this year, more than 400,000 workers in 27 states will have lost between 13

The Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network Employment Law Group will be presenting the 2012 Employment Law Group Conference on May 2-3, 2012 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel Harrisburg-Hershey in Harrisburg. The program will feature the latest information on the recent developments in Unemployment Compensation