Tag: employment insurance

Unemployment insurance claims increase in Louisiana

Julie Campbell
unemployment insurance

The state’s weekly filings for first time claimants are now on the rise. According to a recent report on the figures regarding the first time claims for unemployment insurance in Louisiana, during the week that ended on June 7, the state experienced a weekly filing increase that was quite significant. Though the previous week’s total had been 2,976, the most recent figures rose to 3,292. That is a massive increase to experience from one week to the next, but the state labor department expressed that those unemployment insurance figures were…

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Unemployment insurance claims for first timers on the rise in Louisiana

G. Turner
unemployment wage insurance

The state has now started to see an increase in the number of people claiming when they hadn’t the week before. The official report from the Louisiana Workforce Commission has shown that the number of first time claims for unemployment insurance in the state for the week that ended on May 17 showed an increase over the number that had been recorded during the week before. In one week, the number of first time claims rose from 2,209 to become a notably higher 2,343. That said, while these unemployment insurance…

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Unemployment insurance extension vote to occur this week

Julie Campbell
Unemployment Insurance extension

As early as today, Senate Democrats will be moving to vote to extend the benefits for another three months. This week, as early as today, Democrats in the Senate will be making a push to hold a vote on a three month unemployment insurance extension to add another three months of benefits for the 1.3 million Americans whose benefits ran out just after the holidays. As of yet, nothing has been decided, but the Democrat Senator behind the effort said they will make a hard push. According to Rhode Island’s…

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Unemployment insurance bill to extend the coverage in the works

H. Cutner
Unemployment Insurance

This is developing into an effort that has bipartisan support as a Republican senator has jumped on the bandwagon. According to the Rhode Island Democrat Senator Jack Reed, he will be introducing a bill that would extend the long term federal unemployment insurance program by three months, and this proposal has a Republican co-sponsor. The hope is that there will be a procedural vote on this topic as early as January 6. Senator Reed discussed the importance of the unemployment insurance bill, stating that “This is not a program that…

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Federal unemployment insurance benefits collapse

Nordstrom
Unemployment Insurance

Legislative inaction could leave people without benefits Some 1.3 million people will lose their insurance benefits at the end of the month due to legislative inaction from the U.S. Congress. Federal lawmakers have declined to renew emergency funding that had been implemented for the federal unemployment insurance program. The benefits provided by this program have provided consumers throughout the country with some degree of financial stability as they look for employment. Unemployment insurance was augmented by emergency funds due to ongoing economic issues throughout the U.S. that made it nearly…

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