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Unemployment rate by jurisdiction. Data for all U.S. states, the District of Columbia [4] and Puerto Rico [5] is from June 2023 and September 2021, respectively. Data for Guam is from September 2019, and data for American Samoa is from 2018. Data for the Northern Mariana Islands is from April 2010 (more than ten years old) it is included but ...
The U.S. Government Accountability Office says states reported around $55.8 billion in overpayments of unemployment insurance benefits during the pandemic — $5.3 billion of which were fraudulent ...
In 2012, the Beacon Center was involved in repealing Tennessee's Death tax. [8] Beacon has advocated reducing or eliminating Tennessee's sales taxes on groceries, cigarettes, and gasoline. [18] [16] In 2011, TCPR opposed a proposal to extend unemployment insurance benefits from a maximum of 79 weeks to a maximum of 99 weeks. [19]
Tennessee is attempting to tie the duration of the benefits to the unemployment rate, a move Florida has made. But slashing the duration of the benefits based on the state unemployment rate can ...
Unemployment insurance is funded by both federal and state payroll taxes. In most states, employers pay state and federal unemployment taxes if: (1) they paid wages to employees totaling $1,500 or more in any quarter of a calendar year, or (2) they had at least one employee during any day of a week for 20 or more weeks in a calendar year, regardless of whether those weeks were consecutive.
Initial claims for state unemployment benefits dropped 12,000 to a seasonally adjusted 219,000 for the week ended Sept. 14, the lowest level since the middle of May, the Labor Department said on ...
The maximum unemployment benefit is (as of March 2009) 57.4% of €162 per day (Social security contributions ceiling in 2011), or €6900 per month. [28] Claimants receive 57,4% of their average daily salary of the last 12 months preceding unemployment with the average amount being €1,111 per month. [29]
Here's a look at how weekly unemployment claims changed in Tennessee last week compared with the week prior.