CHICAGO (WLS) -- A year after the pandemic, there's a new problem in Illinois' embattled unemployment system: extended benefits. Some people are having trouble getting renewed. With no work prospects ...

The unemployment compensation system in the United States operates as a joint federal-state program. Unlike a direct federal unemployment program, the federal government supports states in funding and ...

Sen. Jim Webb, D-Virginia, cosponsored a bill today that would extend unemployment insurance by 14 weeks for all jobless Americans. Nearly 2 million out-of-work Americans face expiring benfits by the ...

The recent surge in the state's jobless rate has made about 40,000 North Carolinians eligible for extended unemployment benefits. The N.C. Employment Security Commission said today that those ...

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, which President Obama signed on Feb. 17, 2009, contains a major extension of unemployment benefits. States administer unemployment based on federal ...