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Dealing with unemployment fraud is already a major headache, but having that fraud possibly affect your credit score?
A transgender veteran is fighting a battle to get unemployment benefits, saying her transition is keeping her from getting any money.
For more than six months there has been an ongoing headache for those calling the State of Illinois multiple times for help with unemployment benefits.
There were 840,000 new claims filed across the country last week.
Philip Woodson opened the mail to find out someone else had applied for unemployment benefits in his name.
More stimulus checks would help suffering Americans and prop up the sagging U.S. economy, but Democrats and Republicans haven't yet agreed on a deal.
Dozens of people attended a rally at Union Park on the Near West Side Saturday, calling for more financial support for the unemployed.
The revised HEROES Act, passed by Democrats in the House, would still include stimulus payments and enhanced unemployment benefits.
Earlier this week, we reported on a woman who received a garbled call from an Illinois Department of Employment Security worker who rudely yawned as he spoke.
A man wants to know where his money is, after someone hacked into his Illinois Department of Employment Security account and took off with his earnings.
Stimulus discussions are back on the table in Washington, but time is growing short to deliver a second round of stimulus payments before the election.
Dozens of unemployed people have told us they've waited weeks for a phone call back from IDES only to get disconnected.
Imagine being out of work, waiting weeks to get a call back from the state's unemployment office – and then when you do, the caller not only yawns, but says he has no idea what the problem is.
They can't get unemployment money, and they can't get the state to tell them why.
Fraudsters are taking hundreds of dollars from an Itasca woman's state pension.
John R. White filed the small claims complaint in Cook County Circuit Court Tuesday. He accused IDES of withholding benefits after a system "glitch" when he applied for unemployment online in May.
Unemployment claims across the nation have skyrocketed during the pandemic. In Illinois, more than 1.7 million new unemployment claims have been filed since early March.
A possible solution has emerged for an unemployment benefits problem we have been reporting on for months.
Time is running out on a stimulus package passing before the election, even as the need for another stimulus check and additional unemployment payments remains strong.
Penalty weeks continue to financially cripple thousands of people in the state. Now one lawmaker is putting heat on the governor to change that.
There were 860,000 new claims filed across the country last week, a decrease of 33,000from the previous week.
Unemployed individuals who qualify for an additional $300 under Trump's Lost Wages Assistance program may receive up to six weeks worth of benefits.
The jobs crisis continues, with more than 25,000 people in Illinois applying for unemployment benefits last week.
The Illinois Department of Employment Security reported 25,478 new unemployment claims were filed during the week of August 24 in Illinois.
Disabled Iraq War veteran Christian Peters of Hebron, Indiana is one of the 29 million Americans who are now unemployed. The proud steelworker was cut by ArcelorMittal.
