Posts in 'Unemployment Compensation'

The National Employment Law Project will be holding a webinar entitled New Tools to Access UI for Limited English Proficient Workers on Wednseday April 18, 2012 from 1:00 pm-2:00 pm.

The Pennsylvania Unemployment Compensation Law was recently changed to add additional eligibility requirements for UC benefits. If the effective date of your application for benefits (AB Date) is on or after January 1, 2012, you are required to do all of the following: Register for employment search

“High Unemployment Period” Extended Benefits (HUP EB) are now available in Pennsylvania, the Department of Labor & Industry said on November 3. The U.S. Department of Labor recently notified the state that Pennsylvania’s total unemployment rate had reached 8.1 percent, triggering the availability of

State Treasurer Rob McCord and Labor & Industry Secretary Julia Hearthway have announced that more than 430,000 Pennsylvanians who have received unemployment compensation through a debit card will save $3.5 million in fees under new terms of service governing the program. Pennsylvanians who file for

Unemployment Benefits Bill Will Help Long-Term Unemployed Now, But It Cuts Future Benefits Without Fixing the Financing of the UC System Harrisburg lawmakers have agreed to a compromise bill that will allow an estimated 135,000 long-term unemployed Pennsylvanians to continue receiving unemployment

This story by Jane M. Von Bergen from Phily.com features comments from Sharon Dietrich of Community Legal Services on the negative impact on low-income workers of a proposed system overhaul being currently negotiated by Pennsylvania legislators that would cut unemployment spending $140 million a

Unemployedworkers.org reports that a bill that would drastically cut Unemployment Compensation (UC) benefits for large numbers of Pennsylvania's unemployed is moving in the General Assembly, and votes are expected as early as Monday, May 23. HB 916 would make permanent, harmful reductions in benefit

The economy added 216,000 jobs in March, according to employment figures released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Despite the rise in employment overall, payrolls in the public sector continued to fall, this month by 14,000. The unemployment rate, at 8.8, was little changed. While the

Service Offered Wednesdays from Noon to 4 p.m. The Department of Labor & Industry now offers a new videophone service enabling deaf individuals to communicate directly with an unemployment compensation claims representative through a state-registered American Sign Language interpreter. The service

Senator Richard Durbin (IL), with Senators Jack Reed (RI) and Sherrod Brown (OH), introduced the Unemployment Insurance Solvency Act of 2011 (S.386) on February 17, 2011, which offers immediate tax relief to cash-strapped states and employers, preserves UI benefit levels, and creates new