PITTSBURGH — 11 Investigates told you about the gap in pandemic unemployment benefits several weeks ago. Payments stopped in late December even though Congress passed an extension. The state couldn’t ...

The nation's 59 million self-employed workers got a lifeline last year when lawmakers created the first-ever program that extended jobless benefits to this growing group of workers. But that program, ...

Update: On Saturday the Department of Labor and Industry announced that extended unemployment benefits for self-employed Pennsylvanians would resumed the week of January 24. These are payments for PUA ...

As America prepares to celebrate Labor Day, it’s timely to wonder what the US Department of Labor (DOL) has been up to. One noteworthy recent action was DOL’s August 21 release of a report on improper ...

Initial claims for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, or PUA, fell sharply last week. Half the number of self-employed and gig workers applied for unemployment benefits, according to the Labor ...

An audit released on June 16 of the Illinois Department of Employment Security found that half of federal Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) benefits the agency paid out during the height of the ...

That’s Rich! Having exhausted every last dime I had, we borrowed money from my 70-year-old mother-in-law to get an apartment for my daughters along with my wife and I. I have been homeschooling ...

Selina Smedley said she was expecting to have jobless aid through early September, a $300 weekly boost that has been helping her get by while her Dallas-area cleaning business remains far below ...

Janice Roundtree has had difficulties with Pennsylvania's Pandemic Unemployment Assistance. When Janice Roundtree, 58, first enrolled in the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program, she called it “a ...

Nevada’s workforce agency said Friday that the unemployment program made available last year for gig workers and independent contractors surpassed a million initial claims last week. The state ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WDTN) – Approximately 5,000 people are now eligible for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance after the Department of Labor updated its list of eligibility scenarios. The federal PUA ...