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. -- 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 ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — The Oregon Employment Department announced Wednesday it finished processing a backlog in Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) claims from self-employed and contract workers. David ...

The nation's 59 million self-employed workers got a lifeline last year when lawmakers created the first-ever program that extended jobless benefits to this growing group of workers. But that program, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...