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Please the PDF above for an overview of the report titled Assessing the Local Provision of Veterans' Employment Services.

In a new study commissioned by the Department of Defense and its interagency partners representing the Veterans Employment Initiative (VEI) Task Force, off base veterans’ employment services provided by government and nongovernmental organizations was studied for effectiveness. “Assessing ...

This report provides a brief overview of the three unemployment insurance programs-UC, EUC08 (currently expired), and EB-that may provide benefits to eligible unemployed workers. This report contains a brief explanation of how the EUC08 program, as well as some other UC related payments, b...

This report provides a summary of how Unemployment Compensation (UC) benefits are funded through the Unemployment Trust Fund (UTF). The UTF in the U.S. Treasury is designated as a trust fund for federal accounting purposes. Although the UTF is a single trust fund, it has 59 accounts: the E...

Please click the PDF above to read the report on USDOL's Office of Unemployment Insurance Division of Actuarial Services projections for the UI System over the next five years. Highlights of the analysis for the FY 2015 President’s Budget are detailed below. The total unemployment rate (TU...

Please click the PDF above for the legislative text of the proposed five month Emergency Unemployment Compensation UI extension, the Responsible Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2014 (S.2097) sponsored by Senators Dean Heller (R-NV), Susan Collins (R-ME), Rob Portman (R-OH), Dan ...

Unemployment compensation (UC) benefits have been fully subject to the federal income tax since the passage of the Tax Reform Act of 1986 (P.L. 99-514). Under tax law, unemployment compensation is a broad category that includes regular state UC benefits, extended benefits (EB), trade adjus...

This report provides background on the TAA program. It begins with descriptions of eligibility and benefits under both the current and previous provisions. The report then presents information on application activity, benefit usage, and participants' outcomes.

This report provides an overview of issues that have been raised by stakeholders about youth programs authorized under WIA. First, some policy makers have proposed consolidating these and other workforce programs to make them more efficient and less costly. Other stakeholders assert that a...

This report analyzes several types of recent changes to state Unemployment Compensation (UC) programs. Three categories of UC state law issues are considered: (1) changes in the duration of state UC unemployment benefits; (2) changes in the UC weekly benefit amount related to the now-expir...