unemployment insurance
noun
: social insurance against involuntary unemployment that provides unemployment compensation for a limited period to unemployed workers
also
: unemployment compensation
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Established in the early days of pandemic shutdowns in 2020, the IDES program for enhanced unemployment insurance was overwhelmed with claims and badly mismanaged, the Illinois auditor general found in a report issued in 2023.
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Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 16 May 2025
While examples abound, the state’s woebegone bullet train project, its tortuous efforts to implement information technology and the financial and managerial meltdown of its unemployment insurance program are among the most egregious.
—Dan Walters, Mercury News, 26 Apr. 2025
In that respect, this program would act as unemployment insurance, but only for a maximum of one year.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 May 2025
Rodriguez’s amendments shifted the latter target to the state’s unemployment insurance program.
—Nick Coltrain, Denver Post, 29 Apr. 2025
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Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 16 May 2025
While examples abound, the state’s woebegone bullet train project, its tortuous efforts to implement information technology and the financial and managerial meltdown of its unemployment insurance program are among the most egregious.
—Dan Walters, Mercury News, 26 Apr. 2025
In that respect, this program would act as unemployment insurance, but only for a maximum of one year.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 May 2025
Rodriguez’s amendments shifted the latter target to the state’s unemployment insurance program.
—Nick Coltrain, Denver Post, 29 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for unemployment insurance
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“Unemployment insurance.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unemployment%20insurance. Accessed 28 May. 2025.
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