Collecting Unemployment

Collecting Unemployment Unemployment insurance is offered in each state to people who have lost their job due to no fault of their own and need temporary assistance in meeting various financial obligations until such time as they can find a new job again.  Benefits are paid out each week to eligible recipients and will only [...]

OR Unemployment

OR Unemployment In the state of Oregon, individuals are looking to receive Oregon (“OR”) unemployment benefits must file an application with the states unemployment insurance agency thing that they need unnecessary armaments to receive any type of unemployment compensation under state law.  Unfortunately, many misconceptions and incorrect beliefs prevail regarding what the rules are to [...]

Unemployment Pay

Unemployment Pay The unemployment benefits program initially began of the United States in the mid-1930s with the passage of the Social Security Act of 1935. At that time the Social Security Administration was in charge of overseeing unemployment insurance for the entire country. Nowadays, laws have shifted the burden of administrating unemployment benefit programs to [...]

What Is Unemployment Insurance?

What Is Unemployment Insurance? Unemployment insurance benefits are a temporary means of providing financial assistance to individuals and households who have experienced of job loss or not able to work enough hours each week to put food on the table, pay for bills, and otherwise meet normal monthly expenses. Unemployment benefits programs are administered jointly [...]

Federal Unemployment

Federal Unemployment The United States unemployment insurance programs available throughout the country are a hybrid structure. The federal government has set forth the general parameters and outlines of the country’s unemployment benefits and has left each individual state to determine for itself how to fill in many of the details. Despite individual state differences much [...]

Unemployment Insurance

Unemployment Insurance Both state governments and the United States federal governments offer unemployment insurance benefits. Unemployment insurance (“UI”) payments are available to individuals who are forced to work reduced hours or have lost their job through no fault of their own. The job loss can be due to any number of reasons, including broad layoffs, [...]

Unemployment Insurance Benefits

Unemployment Insurance Benefits As the national unemployment rate has increased over the past few years, so has the popularity of both state and federal level unemployment insurance benefits programs.  Unemployment insurance offers individuals a level of general welfare when they have either become wholly unemployed or partially unemployed through a work hour reduction program the [...]