Unemployment Insurance

Labor Dept backs state-by-state refresh of UI benefits systems rocked by pandemic

The Labor Department is embarking on a state-by-state refresh of unemployment insurance (UI) systems pushed to their limits at the height of the pandemic.

Management

How state agencies want to foster more resilient workforces and get them off assistance

Workforce

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documents, papers, files, records, office

With an increase in federal payouts comes an increase in improper payments

Agency Oversight

(AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

FILE - In this May 6, 2020, file photo, a sign stands outside the Department of Labor's headquarters in Washington. A government watchdog has found that the Labor Department’s widely watched weekly unemployment benefits data are providing an inaccurate reading on the number of newly laid off workers because of flaws in the government’s data collection. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

With $2B, Labor Dept. employs two-part strategy to fix unemployment insurance systems

IT Modernization

Pension Benefits Guaranty Corporation inspector general

Hazards of self-certification and other lessons learned from federal government’s pandemic response

Agency Oversight

A man uses his phone to copy phone numbers posted on the locked doors of a Georgia Department of Labor office Thursday, May 7, 2020, in Norcross Ga. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

Labor Dept. trying to help states fix pandemic unemployment claims crunch

Workforce

A furloughed federal employee’s guide to filing for unemployment during the shutdown

Government Shutdown

The UI program: A conversation with Gay Gilbert, Office of Unemployment Insurance, Department of Labor

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