How to Use unemployment insurance in a Sentence

unemployment insurance

noun

• Instead, the money was used for state jobless claims that should have been paid from the unemployment insurance trust fund.
  — Larry Edelman, BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2023
• The first phase of the state’s new online system for handling unemployment insurance claims is slated to go live on Sept. 12.
  — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2023
• With the end of the pandemic, unemployment insurance is also no longer available for him.
  — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 24 Aug. 2023
• That’s in line with the weekly reports of initial claims for unemployment insurance, which have remained near record lows.
  — Lydia Depillis, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Nov. 2022
• And more than half of unemployment insurance during the pandemic was disbursed to the bottom two-fifths of income groups.
  — Samanth Subramanian, Quartz, 19 Jan. 2022
• Initial jobless claims, which measures the number of people who filed for unemployment insurance for the first time last week, are due out at 8:30 a.m.
  — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 2 Mar. 2023
• The number of people claiming unemployment insurance as a share of the population was the lowest on record in 2019.
  — Tomas J. Philipson, WSJ, 23 Dec. 2021
• As adults, men who had been in the treatment group were more likely to be married, earned some 20% more a year and were 40% less likely to rely on welfare or unemployment insurance.
  — Susan Pinker, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2022
• Claims for unemployment insurance started growing faster in the first half of July.
  — Nate Dicamillo, Quartz, 2 Aug. 2022
• That’s likely to slow or reverse the trend identified in this paper, and one reason fixing the unemployment insurance system is a good idea.
  — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 7 Oct. 2022
• That some things, like all of the paperwork that people have to do to access unemployment insurance or food stamps, actually has to be streamlined.
  — How To Save A Country, The New Republic, 8 June 2023
• But the final package did not address a remaining $1.8 billion debt in the state’s unemployment insurance fund caused by the pandemic.
  — Clare Spaulding, chicagotribune.com, 10 Apr. 2022
• The program was meant to pay people not usually covered by unemployment insurance, such as gig workers or the self-employed.
  — Dan Petrella, Chicago Tribune, 16 June 2022
• Masterson also has brushed aside concerns the rule changes would lead to a rush of unemployment claims could drain the state’s unemployment insurance fund and weigh on businesses.
  — Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2021
• Adrienne Roberts The saga of a group of Michigan residents falsely accused of unemployment insurance fraud nearly a decade ago has finally come to a close.
  — Detroit Free Press, 24 Jan. 2024
• Job growth has remained robust, and, despite a recent uptick in filings for unemployment insurance, there is little sign of a broad increase in job losses.
  — New York Times, 28 July 2022
• Currently, the test getting the most attention is the ABC test, which in place in about 20 states for unemployment insurance purposes, but only about 10 states for wage and hour purposes.
  — Tom Spiggle, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2022
• In debate lasting about three hours, Democrats said paying unemployment insurance to strikers would be rare.
  — Stephen Singer, Hartford Courant, 13 Apr. 2022
• Separate data from the Labor Department on Thursday showed that filings for unemployment insurance fell last week for the second week in a row.
  — Ben Casselman, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Aug. 2022
• The unemployment rate remains below 4% and the economy continues to see net job gains each month, but the number of workers staying on unemployment insurance rolls has grown over the past year.
  — WSJ, 28 Dec. 2023
• Moreover, many programs that will need to be expanded and improved, such as unemployment insurance, are already run by the government.
  — J. Mijin Cha, Scientific American, 6 July 2022
• More workers will return to the labor force as schools re-open reliably and as stimulus payments and unemployment insurance benefits are farther in the past.
  — Bill Conerly, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2022
• Or a thief might commit unemployment insurance fraud with your information or steal your tax refund.
  — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2023
• Another program launching later this year will do the same for those filing for unemployment insurance.
  — Meredith Cohn, baltimoresun.com, 18 Jan. 2022
• The state of Michigan issued a request for proposal for a new unemployment insurance system earlier this year.
  — Adrienne Roberts, Detroit Free Press, 16 Nov. 2022
• Tuesday's Michigan Supreme Court decision that the thousands of unemployment insurance claimants who were wrongly accused of fraud can seek financial relief from the state, though, gives Blanchard hope.
  — Adrienne Roberts, Detroit Free Press, 27 July 2022
• Much of that money went directly to households in the form of stimulus checks, expanded unemployment insurance and tax credits for parents.
  — New York Times, 25 Apr. 2022
• Layoffs fell to a fresh record low in April, but separate data from the Labor Department has shown an uptick in applications for unemployment insurance in recent weeks.
  — Fortune, 2 June 2022
• First-time claims for unemployment insurance, while still historically low, rose in the week ending May 14 to their highest level since January.
  — Jim Puzzanghera, BostonGlobe.com, 21 May 2022
• Applications for unemployment insurance fell slightly in the first week of 2023, reflecting a still-tight labor market.
  — Bryan Mena, WSJ, 12 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024