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The American Rescue Plan Act passed by Congress and signed into law by the President last week includes several key provisions concerning Unemployment Insurance, and extends several CARES Act programs. The Rescue Plan Act: *maintains the...

The unemployment landscape has changed over the past year.  Federal programs provided assistance to both individuals and employers.  States had to adapt these programs while keeping up with the immediate need for the unemployment systems to...

The Covid-19 pandemic has had a major impact on the economy, and the closure of many businesses resulted in an unprecedented surge in unemployment claims filed by jobless workers. By December 2020, over 93 million unemployment claims had been filed...

As you may know from news reports, there has been a significant increase in fraudulent unemployment insurance claims filed over the past couple of months. In this scheme,  false claims are filed in the names of current employees, in hope of...

Extended UI benefits At the end of April 2020, the US Department of Labor announced that the national unemployment rate was 14.7%, with over 30 million Americans filing for unemployment compensation.  As of May 3, 2020, the number of unemployment...

Unemployment Insurance claims filed across the country exceed 22 million since mid-March. Industrial U.I. Services/Unemployment Cost Control have received record numbers of claims (by a wide margin!) over the past two weeks. New York in particular...

We hope that everyone is well. There have been very few developments since our last update. The State Departments of Labor have been overwhelmed with claims that are beyond the capability of many antiquated state computer systems to handle. State...

On March 28th, 2020 the President signed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES Act). This approximately 850 page Act covers many employment related issues affected by the current pandemic, including unemployment insurance....