unemployment benefits

Some CalFresh recipients have reached out to the I-Team saying their electronic benefits transfer, or EBT, cards have been hacked by scammers. The state uses these cards to distribute money to low income residents, which they can use to buy food. But now, after getting hacked, some recipients are left penniless. The I-Team dug into how bad the problem is...

Fewer Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week reflecting a low level of layoffs across the economy

The director of California’s troubled unemployment benefits department has resigned

A Virginia man is fighting to hang on to $9,000 in unemployment benefits that the state gave him when his compressor plant closed in 2018

The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell last week to a new low point since the pandemic erupted, evidence that layoffs are declining as companies hold onto workers