NORFOLK, Va. — The Virginia Employment Commission is no longer requiring unemployed workers to use PINs to file weekly or continued claims for benefits. A VEC spokeswoman said the policy change is ...

The VEC, with help from a private contractor, last week reached Northam's goal of clearing 10,000 of those cases a week, Healy said. But JLARC staff cautioned legislators that while the VEC is ...

RICHMOND, Va. -- When Seon Kennedy was let go from his management job at a Henrico rehab center in January, he never expected to still be waiting to receive his unemployment benefits in May. “Right ...

RICHMOND, Va. -- Nearly 80,000 Virginians who have been waiting, in some cases for months, to find out if they are eligible for unemployment benefits, will be greenlighted to receive their benefits by ...

Nearly 1.5 million Virginians have filed for benefits in the year since the COVID pandemic started destroying jobs. In that time, the Virginia Employment Commission has sent benefits to 1.3 million of ...

CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. -- As the Virginia Employment Commission tries to resolve tens of thousands of fraud cases, a teacher in Chesterfield says they just sent her a bill for $7,000. Michelle ...

Just when local school systems are struggling to recruit more bus drivers so that kids can get to class, word comes that some drivers are being expected to repay COVID unemployment benefits. “How the ...

RICHMOND, Va. - A decades-old computer system and not enough staff to answer phones were two causes of the months-long delay some out-of-work Virginians experienced while waiting for help from the ...