Ohio Department of Job and Family Services

More than 1.5 million Ohioans – nearly 13 percent of the state’s population – have received some sort of unemployment assistance since the pandemic began last spring.

For unemployed Ohioans, the additional $600 weekly Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation added to their state benefits is set to expire tomorrow. Congress has not passed a new coronavirus relief package, and local jobless residents worry they will not be able to make ends meet.

An extra 20 weeks of unemployment compensation will be made available to eligible Ohioans once they have exhausted their other benefits.

The fund by which Ohio pays jobless benefits is officially broke, and the state has asked to borrow more than $3 billion so payments can keep going out...

Reports of child abuse in Ohio are down dramatically, but those working in the field say they’re concerned that the real incidents of child abuse are...

Shortly after COVID19 shut down much of Ohio, Governor DeWine announced food stamp recipients would be allowed to use the drive-up grocery shopping...

Deloitte, a consulting company contracted by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services (ODJFS), is investigating a data breach in the system...

The Ohio Department Job and Family Services has paid more than $2 billion in unemployment claims to nearly 560,000 Ohioans since mid-March. But that’s...

When businesses shut down or lay off employees, they are required to give a notice to the feds and the state. A change intended to make that process...

Cleanup from this week’s devastating tornadoes continues around the Miami Valley. More than 130 people remain in emergency shelters. Now, low-income…

Around 7,000 federal workers in Ohio aren’t receiving paychecks because of the government shutdown. And none of them will be offered unemployment checks...

The state’s cash welfare program has been sending out half as many checks to Ohio families as it did three and a half years ago, but advocates have very…