Unemployment Insurance Benefits

134,000 gig workers, independent contractors and self-employed Ohioans who have been waiting on their unemployment claims for more than a month will now…

Fraud in Ohio's unemployment system cost the state more than $330 million in the fourth quarter of last year. And there could still be fraud among more…

Ohio’s unemployment system continues to be a challenge the for thousands who say it is slow and non-responsive. Tthe system has needed major updates. Ohio…

Nearly 28 thousand Ohioans filed first-time claims for unemployment insurance benefits last week, bringing the state's pandemic total to over 1.9…

Nearly 13 percent of the state’s population has received some sort of unemployment assistance since the COVID-19 pandemic began. And some of those people…

Since the pandemic began in March, Ohio paid 821 thousand regular unemployment claims and 608 thousand claims for federally funded Pandemic Unemployment…

Efforts to prevent fraud in state unemployment systems are outdated, hurting millions of people with legitimate claims by causing lengthy and unnecessary delays while not managing to catch much fraud.

The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services says thousands of Ohioans who received unemployment benefits during the COVID-19 pandemic have been told…

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has approved 717 million dollars in grant funding to provide Ohioans with extra unemployment benefits. Lieutenant…

The state will pay a fifth of the 276 thousand claims for non-traditional unemployment assistance it was holding back as part of a fraud investigation.…