unemployment benefit

Unpaid, they could apply for unemployment benefit, although many had difficulty getting it.

If each person received the maximum unemployment benefit of $1,019 each week, for four weeks, the state’s fund would have to pay out $122 million.

The discussion about the unemployment benefit hike is “very odd,” given that the preceding increase was small and the next one probably will be too, Scholz said.

The five-year statute of limitations on unemployment benefit fraud also begins to toll, meaning some of the earliest instances of people who stole from the government’s generous support program will also be free from legal jeopardy.

The Labor Department’s pandemic-era “first week” unemployment benefit program has been shut down for two years, but the department is still hoarding nearly $5 billion in cash that never got spent.