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In This Issue: Congress under Pressure to Pass a Short-Term Government Spending Bill Before New Fiscal Year Begins on October 1 New Paper Outlines Impact on Workforce Funding NASWA Leaders Attend White House Workforce Data Convening Meeting New Publication Summarizes Key LMI Provisions in ...

In This Issue: House, Senate Working to Complete FY 2015 Spending Plan to Avert Government Shutdown Elections: Governors, U.S. House and Senate Administration and Finance and Employment and Training Committees Hold Joint Meeting on WIOA Implementation with Key System Partners NASWA hosts E...

Salute to the Leadership 2014 Award Recipients: President's Award – Richard A. Hobbie, Ph.D., Executive Director, NASWA SEAL Award – The State of Florida with Special Recognition to the Honorable Rick Scott, Governor and the CareerSource Florida Network Eagle Award – Roger Bailie, Director...

Recently it was announced that the debt North Carolina owed to the federal government to pay unemployment benefits had dropped from nearly $2.6 billion to $980 million. Now, the Division of Employment Security says they are hoping to pay that debt off early, perhaps as soon as August 2015....

The Division of Employment Security (DES) now has the legal authority to cease providing Appeals Hearing Notices to attorneys who pay for that information.On June 12, 2014, the North Carolina Court of Appeals ordered that the Preliminary Injunction that was entered on March 13, 2014 in Wak...

Earlier this week, on March 18-20, states from NASWA’s Administration & Finance (A&F) and Unemployment Insurance (UI) Committees met with staff from the U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL) Employment and Training Administration’s (ETA) Office of Unemployment Insurance (OUI) concerning...

Click the PDF document to view the minutes from the June 27-28, 2013 NASWA Employment & Training Committee meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina.

The temporary Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC08) program may provide additional federal unemployment insurance benefits to eligible individuals who have exhausted all available benefits from their state Unemployment Compensation (UC) programs. Currently, EUC08 benefits are availab...

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; and (3) the enactment i...