State will pay $2.034B to the federal government from the employer-funded unemployment insurance trust fund and $73M in ...

Dean Tran of Fitchburg, was convicted in September on 20 counts of wire fraud and three counts of filing false tax returns.

Massachusetts must pay the federal government $2.1 billion over the next decade after the Baker administration mistakenly used federal pandemic funds to cover unemployment benefits, officials said ...

Initial filings for unemployment benefits in Massachusetts dropped last week compared with the week prior, the U.S. Department of Labor said Thursday. New jobless claims, a proxy for layoffs, fell to ...

Two Massachusetts men were indicted for COVID-19 fraud, facing charges of wire fraud conspiracy and wire fraud after allegedly filing fake unemployment claims.

Jasmine Murphy, 38, also of Boston, was indicted on seven counts of wire fraud and one count of making a false statement to a financial institution, also from PUA, UI and PPP also obtained before ...

Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) was a program that temporarily expanded unemployment insurance (UI) eligibility to people who wouldn't otherwise qualify. This included self-employed workers ...

Massachusetts experienced the same 4.1% unemployment rate in December as the country as a whole, officials said Friday, ending a nearly two-year streak of comparatively lower joblessness in the ...

BOSTON (WPRI) — Massachusetts saw a slight uptick in its unemployment rate and number of jobs added last month, according to the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development (EOLWD).

Here's a look at how weekly unemployment claims changed in Massachusetts last week compared with the week prior.