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According to the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development, between March 15 and June 6, 626,697 people applied for unemployment insurance benefits. During that time, state officials say, they ...
The Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development (DWD) is an agency of the Wisconsin state government responsible for providing services to Wisconsin workers, employers, and job-seekers to meet Wisconsin's workforce needs. To effect its mission, the Department administers unemployment benefits and workers' compensation programs for the state ...
The Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development says they're encouraging people to go online for faster delivery of unemployment benefits. Scott Anderson , Patch Staff Posted Thu, Mar 19, 2020 ...
Work Searches Return For People Claiming Unemployment Insurance - Across Wisconsin, WI - Party-line vote ends emergency rule that suspended the requirement during the pandemic.
U.S. unemployment claims rose to 214,000 last week, up 25,000 claims from 189,000 the week prior on a seasonally adjusted basis. Wisconsin saw the largest percentage increase in weekly claims ...
Unemployment insurance is funded by both federal and state payroll taxes. In most states, employers pay state and federal unemployment taxes if: (1) they paid wages to employees totaling $1,500 or more in any quarter of a calendar year, or (2) they had at least one employee during any day of a week for 20 or more weeks in a calendar year, regardless of whether those weeks were consecutive.
Unemployment in Wisconsin is still slightly higher than it was in pre-pandemic days. The annual unemployment rate for the state’s labor force in 2019 was 3.3 percent, according to the labor bureau.
As of 2011, 13 counties had elected county executives: Brown, Chippewa, Dane, Fond du Lac, Kenosha, Manitowoc, Milwaukee, Outagamie, Portage, Racine, Sawyer, Waukesha, and Winnebago. 23 had an appointed county administrator, 34 had an appointed administrative coordinator, and 2 had neither an executive nor an administrator.