unemployment

More jobs were available, but it seems more people looked for a job

(Olympia, WA)  --  Washington's economy added 16-thousand-100 jobs last month as the unemployment rate remained at three-point-seven percent.  Most jobs were added in government, education and health services, and professional and business services.  The Washingt...

How do you apply for unemployment benefits?

Suspect is one of thousands who are believed to have opened at least 122K fake claims in Washington state, bilking citizens out of hundreds of millions of dollars.

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.

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

Washington State is the prime target of an unemployment scam being perpetrated by a sophisticated group of fraudsters in Nigeria, according to the United States secret service.

Scammers have built websites for unemployment claimers to log on and give up their personal information like social security numbers outside of a safe and secure internet website.

Is the unemployment rate in the state of Washington better or worse than the majority of the country? According to a new study from our friends at WalletHub.com, Washingtonians don't have it as bad.

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.

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.