Ohio Unemployment

Geri Maples is executive director of the Southwest Ohio chapter of Blue Star Families, a nonprofit supporting military families. She was interviewed for this season of Veterans' Voices.

The Ohio Supreme Court dismissed as moot an order to pay $300 weekly pandemic unemployment assistance checks to Ohioans who sued last year, but the state says that ruling ends the case.

The president and CEO of the Ohio Chamber of Commerce said he has a proposal to change the way unemployment benefits are paid.

Since the pandemic began in March, Ohio paid 821,000 regular unemployment claims and 608,000 for federally funded Pandemic Unemployment Assistance to people who don’t normally qualify for jobless benefits.

The state of Ohio has released for payment around a fifth of the quarter of a million claims for non-traditional unemployment assistance that it was...

Ohio’s self-employed, independent contractors and part time workers who haven’t qualified for unemployment benefits can now start pre-registering for...

The state has paid out $858 million dollars to nearly 350,000 Ohioans who’ve lost their jobs in the last five weeks. And more claims are expected to...

The thousands of Ohioans whose elective procedures were postponed as a result of the state’s coronavirus outbreak will soon be able to access the…

More than 135,000 workers in Ohio every week actually work for temporary staffing agencies. And though it isn’t clear yet how many of those workers have…

Over 468,000 Ohioans have filed for unemployment in the last two weeks – that’s nearly a third more than the total number filed last year. The...

Demand for unemployment benefits is skyrocketing across the state as the coronavirus continues to disrupt nearly every aspect of the economy. Last week,…

Online retail giant Amazon is hosting employment information sessions across the Miami Valley this week. The first was held Monday morning in Wilmington,…