Unemployment benefits are subject to federal income taxes, but they're not automatically withheld from the payments.

Federal investigators already found what appears to be the same unemployment fraud that DOGE found years earlier and on a far greater scale.

Once the administrative leave that some government employees took ends, jobless filings are expected to jump again.

The federal government, like any employer, can attempt to deny paying unemployment benefits even if a state determines the fired employee is eligible.

Fewer Americans sought unemployment benefits last week as employers appear to be holding onto their workers even as the ...

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In its latest findings, the Department of Government Efficiency or DOGE, says it has uncovered $382 million in fraudulent unemployment payments since 2020. Most of them, in three states. DOGE says ...

More Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week, but U.S. layoffs remain in the same historically healthy range of ...