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The Republican-led Pennsylvania House has voted to end Gov. Tom Wolf's disaster declaration. Yesterday's vote is part of a yearlong push by the GOP to set limits on a governor's power to order emergency measures.
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Pennsylvania’s long-awaited overhaul of its unemployment claims filing system is now live.
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Claims will be put on hold until June 8 as the state makes an ambitious leap to a new, cloud-based benefits system. But experts warn this “all-at-once” approach often fails.
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On today’s program: Some employers and education institutions are requiring employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19, but others are waiting for the vaccines to receive full approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration; unemployed Pennsylvanians will soon have to show proof they’re looking for work, a requirement halted due to the pandemic; and the airport is expecting a busy weekend ahead and summer season as more Americans are vaccinated and traveling.
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Pennsylvania will resume work search requirements in July for hundreds of thousands of people receiving unemployment compensation. Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration said Monday that the requirement will resume July 18. That means that people claiming jobless benefits will have to search for work during the previous week.
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The final phases have been on hold since late last year due to the coronavirus pandemic, but all workers have to do now is some fine-tuning and system tests.
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COVID Pushed Black Unemployment Higher In PA Than Anywhere In The Nation, Report SaysNearly one in five Black Pennsylvanians was unemployed as 2020 ended, according to a report by the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning D.C. think…
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Sandra Huffman was cleaning St. Luke’s hospital in Quakertown, gloved and maskless, when she got sick last March. It felt as though a film of spiderwebs…
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Bastian Harris is one of many people in Pennsylvania who qualify for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance – but they have struggled to get any money.A…