New claims for the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program shot up 635 percent last week from the week before, the state workforce agency said Friday, casting doubt on the legitimacy of the increase.

Oregonians on Pandemic Unemployment Assistance will still get their regular weekly benefits despite the program’s late extension, but there is still no telling when they might pocket the money. The ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — The Oregon Employment Department, in partnership with Google, launched a new Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) online form. The new form will allow the more than 100,000 mostly ...

PORTLAND, Ore. -- For the third week in a row, the Oregon Employment Department failed to meet it's weekly goal for processing a backlog of 70,000 Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) claims. The ...

COLORADO, USA — The number of people being told to pay back their unemployment benefits could get a lot higher as a second group of claimants is asked to provide certain documents by Dec. 21, or risk ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The self-employed have the ability to file for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance on Illinois' Department of Employment Security website starting Monday, but the ABC 7 I-Team heard from ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — As tens of thousands of people in Oregon waited for unemployment benefits, state workers paid to process their claims wasted hours scrolling through Instagram and Facebook at a ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- More people in Illinois are just learning they owe the state thousands of dollars in overpaid unemployment benefits, including one Bloomingdale woman who got a letter saying she owes ...

Nevada’s employment office seems to have made some headway in processing unemployment insurance claims filed by independent contractors and self-employed workers but more work could be done, according ...