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The Washington State Department of Social Security was created by the legislature in 1937 with divisions to manage the state's unemployment benefits and employment offices. It was originally located in the Old Capitol Building in Olympia but outgrew its offices and was later furnished a separate headquarters building in January 1947.
Washington’s unemployment rate was the fifth highest of any state in the country and nearly a whole percentage point higher than the national rate of 3.9%, up from 3.7% last month.
In February, Whatcom County’s unemployment rate was 6.5% with 7,433 residents receiving unemployment benefits, and was the fifth consecutive month of unemployment increases. Whatcom County’s ...
Economics. Unemployment benefits, also called unemployment insurance, unemployment payment, unemployment compensation, or simply unemployment, are payments made by governmental bodies to unemployed people. Depending on the country and the status of the person, those sums may be small, covering only basic needs, or may compensate the lost time ...
t. e. Unemployment insurance in the United States, colloquially referred to as unemployment benefits, refers to social insurance programs which replace a portion of wages for individuals during unemployment. The first unemployment insurance program in the U.S. was created in Wisconsin in 1932, and the federal Social Security Act of 1935 created ...
Whatcom County’s unemployment rate hit an extreme high of 17.4% in April 2020, and since then has fluctuated. Ferry County had the highest unemployment rate in January at 11.1%, and King County ...
In California, the Employment Development Department ( EDD) is a department of the state government that administers Unemployment Insurance (UI), Disability Insurance (DI), and Paid Family Leave (PFL) programs. The department also provides employment service programs and collects the state's labor market information and employment data.
In July 2022, Whatcom County’s unemployment rate was 4.4%, with 5,086 residents receiving unemployment, 1,089 more residents unemployed compared to July 2023.