Ohio Department of Job and Family Services

State officials say Ohio's unemployment rate for August is 8.9  percent, down from a revised 9 percent in July. 

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

The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services have suspended pandemic unemployment benefits for 276 thousand people as part of a fraud investigation.  

Ohio's unemployment rate for June is 10.9 percent, down from a revised 13.9 percent rate in May.  

State officials today said Ohio’s unemployment rate was 13.7 percent in May, down from a revised 17.6 percent in April. 

State officials say some Ohio school children are eligible to receive 300 dollars in reimbursements for free and reduced lunches.  

State officials say more than 35 thousand Ohioans filed claims for unemployment insurance benefits last week, bringing the state's total over the last three months to  over 1.3 million. 

There are now 696,519 unemployment claims filed in Ohio, more claims in the past month than in the past two years.  Frustration and desparation has increased with wait times and disconnects, and Ohio Department of Job and Family Services has raced to catch up with the need.  

While states like New York  and California are being swamped by a tsunami of COVID-19 cases, Ohio continues to brace for the surge.  With 102 COVID-19 related deaths and over 3700 postive cases, Governor Mike DeWine warns it is coming.

State officials say the unemployment rate in central Ohio was the lowest among metro regions in January, at 4.2 percent. 

Ohio's unemployment rate for January is 4.1 percent, unchanged from December.  

 The state's unemployment compensation fund is running low and would be inadequate if an economic downtown occurs.  

Ohio's unemployment rate was 4.2 percent in December, unchanged from November. 

Ohio's unemployment rate was 4.2 percent in November, unchanged from October. 

State officials say Cleveland had the lowest unemployment rate of any metro area in October. 

Central Ohio's unemployment rate declined last month. 

Ohio's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate increased slightly from July to August.