If you applied for unemployment and have not received any benefits there's good news from the State of Washington Unemployment Department your benefits should arrive by June 19th.
A State Rep points out recently that the Employment Security Department (ESD) said they estimated $200 million paid out to the Nigerian scam. So, how can they say they've recovered $300 Million?
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.