unemployment compensation

The Unemployment Modernization and Improvement Council Issued a report that identifies ways the state agency can improve its system.

Adding those who are experiencing unemployment would round out the panel that includes lawmakers, employers and union reps.

Children’s Hospital on Tuesday announced that vaccination clinics for kids 12 and up are open at its Akron and Boardman campuses; Governor Mike DeWine has signed into law a $465 million bill meant to help lower-income Ohioans pay for rent and mortgages; a new study at the Cleveland Clinic shows that the new technology behind the coronavirus vaccines is working well; and more stories.

The U.S. senator is asking the state to stop providing the $300 weekly federal checks to those who are out of work.

The top leader of the Ohio Senate addresses the system's challenges and talks about what's being done to overcome them.

ODJFS has identified 77,000 claims in the past two weeks as fraudulent, adding to the thousands of claims already marked as fake in the unemployment compensation system.

Gov. Mike DeWine says "international gangsters" are taking advantage of the system.

Fraud in the state’s unemployment system cost Ohio more than $330 million in just the last three months of last year. And there could still be fraud among more than a quarter of a million claims flagged this summer.

Gov. Mike DeWine says the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services alone is unable to fix the issues that are bogging down the system.

A new stimulus bill in the Senate may benefit a group that missed out on stimulus checks in March. College students did not necessarily benefit from the…