Initial filings for unemployment benefits in North Carolina rose last week compared with the week prior, the U.S. Department ...

The state’s Division of Employment Security is making progress toward improving first time unemployment insurance payments, ...

The auditor’s report says that, in at least 11,000 cases last year, the North Carolina division sent unemployment benefit payments more than 35 days after the claim was made. In 6,000 cases ...

North Carolina legislators summoned Division of Employment Security officials to a hearing following a report by the state auditor's office that said too many unemployment checks were being sent late.

Workers who live or work in the 39 impacted counties qualify for up to 14 weeks of federal benefits. Those benefits will be ...

The job losses are not as severe as during the pandemic, but the recovery is more complicated as Buncombe County goes from ...

Only eight states have a lower weekly maximum unemployment benefit than North Carolina. The N.C. Division of Employment Security estimates it may take between two and three weeks for impacted ...

In November, U.S. employers added a strong 227,000 jobs, following a paltry 36,000 in October, when the effects of strikes ...

The state’s seasonally adjusted November 2024 unemployment rate was 3.7%, unchanged from October’s revised rate. The national rate increased 0.1 of a percentage point to 4.2%.

ASHEVILLE – Unemployment rates rose sharply across Western North Carolina in October ... Cooper increasing maximum benefits ...

Initial filings for unemployment benefits in North Carolina rose last week compared with the week prior, the U.S. Department of Labor said Thursday. New jobless claims, a proxy for layoffs ...