unemployment

$1.6 million in fraudulent claims paid out by state before issues detected.

WA State had to temporarily suspend Employment Security Department payments, due in part to millions overpaid to scammers.

Inslee says some positive signs so far from Stay At Home and other efforts. The rest of his press briefing did not bring much reassurance.

As expected, unemployment claims skyrocket due to COVID-19.

You may have seen people posting on social media about when they went to WorkSource, they ran into a roadblock, namely the required job search requirements---when they are expecting to come back to original job when this subsides.

The economy in the Tri-Cities continues to grow and evidence of that appears in the unemployment rate.
The numbers were pretty significant from last year at this time to now.
Last year the unemployment rate in Benton County was 6.2% in November and this year the unemployment rate is just 4...

According to the Washington State Employment Security Department, hundreds of thousands of unemployment benefits have been illegally given to county jail inmates over the last three years. A total of 1,900-plus inmates received them.

For the first time since May of 2014, the Washington state unemployment rate dropped just below the national average.

New numbers released by Washington state show our region fairly stable when it comes to jobs, but not among the lowest in state.

At showing some stability, Washington state's unemployment rate showed virtually no change the first two months of the year.