Unemployment Insurance

Unemployment benefits, also called unemployment insurance, unemployment payment, unemployment compensation, or simply unemployment, are payments made by authorized bodies to unemployed people. In the United States, benefits are funded by a compulsory governmental insurance system, not taxes on individual citizens. Depending on the jurisdiction and the status of the person, those sums may be small, covering only basic needs, or may compensate the lost time proportionally to the previous earned salary. Unemployment benefits are generally given only to those registering as unemployed, and often on conditions ensuring that they seek work. In British English unemployment benefits are also colloquially referred …

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AEI: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research · 17 April 2024 English

Abstract Homelessness is arguably the most extreme hardship associated with poverty in the United States, yet people experiencing homelessness are excluded from official poverty statistics and much of the extreme …

covered by these data include DI amounts, Unemployment Insurance (UI) among people who do not file 1040s


TCF: The Century Foundation · 16 April 2024 English

Introduction Technological advancements in unemployment insurance (UI) systems are typically viewed as inherently good, but often they are hindered in their ability to improve program access and benefit

1 Improving State Unemployment Insurance Technology: A Guide for Advocates MARCH Introduction Technological advancements in unemployment insurance (UI) systems are typically viewed as inherently projects. Contents Introduction Chapter 1: How unemployment insurance systems get made Chapter 2: Mapping the upgrade their archaic infrastructure to pay unemployment insurance benefits for decades. An earlier collaboration Chapter 1: How unemployment insurance systems get made Government unemployment insurance systems are


IMF: International Monetary Fund · 15 April 2024 English

South Africa has many elements of sound fiscal transparency practices. Based on an assessment of fiscal transparency practices against the IMF’s Fiscal Transparency Code, South Africa's practices are strongest in …

Assessing Procurement Systems Initiative UIF Unemployment Insurance Fund IMF | Technical Report 5 Preface


IOM: International Organization for Migration · 12 April 2024 English

RAPID SITUATION AND NEEDS ASSESSMENT OF INFORMAL CROSS-BORDER TRADERS at the Chirundu, Mwami, Mchinji, Beitbridge and Musina border posts during the COVID-19 pandemic The opinions expressed in this publication are …

emergency procurement, wage support through the Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) and financial assistance to


Roosevelt Institute · 12 April 2024 English

Focusing on corporate and public power, labor and wages, and the economics of race and gender inequality, the Roosevelt Institute unifies experts, invests in young leaders, and advances progressive policies …

at Employ America, where she focused on unemployment insurance benefits during the COVID-19 pandemic.


NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research · 11 April 2024 English

Homelessness is arguably the most extreme hardship associated with poverty in the United States, yet people experiencing homelessness are excluded from official poverty statistics and much of the extreme poverty …

covered by these data include DI amounts, Unemployment Insurance (UI) among people who do not file 1040s


NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research · 11 April 2024 English

Contrary to historical episodes, the 2022–2023 tightening of US monetary policy has not yet triggered financial crisis in emerging markets. Why is this time different? To answer this question, we …

covering total public gross debt stock, unemployment insurance fund net assets, public sector assets,


World Bank Group · 10 April 2024 English

In 2022, the Caribbean experienced an extraordinary inflation surge not seen in over a decade, hitting Caribbean households just as they were recovering from the economic repercussions of the COVID-19 …

strengthening complementary measures, such as unemployment insurance and economic inclusion interventions to


PPIC: Public Policy Institute of California · 9 April 2024 English

⊲ In 2022 (the most recent data available), families at the top of the income distribution—the 90th percentile—earned 11 times more than families at the 10th percentile ($305,000 vs. [...] …

withdrawals, social security, cash welfare, unemployment insurance, and other sources. Family income does


Washington Center for Equitable Growth · 9 April 2024 English

The nearly 90-year-old federal-state Unemployment Insurance program provides much-needed relief to unemployed workers who lose their jobs through no fault of their own and helps to stabilize the U.S. economy New Deal, most recently the Great Recession of 2007–2009 and the short but […] The post An Unemployment Insurance modernization bill now before the U.S. Senate is a much-needed step in the right direction

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