Nearly 1.5 million Virginians have filed for benefits in the year since the COVID pandemic started destroying jobs. In that time, the Virginia Employment Commission has sent benefits to 1.3 million of ...

MIDLOTHIAN, Va. -- The CBS6 Problem Solvers continues to hear from viewers about fraud cases involving the Virginia Employment Commission. A Midlothian man says the VEC started sending him letters in ...

RICHMOND, Va. -- Under pressure from a lawsuit and a judge's order to clear a backlog of Virginian's requests for information about their unemployment benefits, the Virginia Employment Commission ...

HENRICO, Va, (WRIC) — After checking the status of an unemployment claim with the Virginia Employment Commission, a Henrico woman was stunned to discover she had access to 90 pages of confidential ...

Calls about unemployment benefits still aren’t being answered. Staff to settle disputed claims are leaving, even as the state hires people to speed the process. And the replacement of an antiquated ...

The VEC, with help from a private contractor, last week reached Northam's goal of clearing 10,000 of those cases a week, Healy said. But JLARC staff cautioned legislators that while the VEC is ...

Just when local school systems are struggling to recruit more bus drivers so that kids can get to class, word comes that some drivers are being expected to repay COVID unemployment benefits. “How the ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WDBJ) - The Virginia Employment Commission continues to deal with the problems that plagued the state agency during the pandemic. Monday afternoon, the VEC Commissioner said the agency ...