unemployment insurance

noun

: social insurance against involuntary unemployment that provides unemployment compensation for a limited period to unemployed workers

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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. 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

Word History

First Known Use

1923, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of unemployment insurance was in 1923

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“Unemployment insurance.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unemployment%20insurance. Accessed 28 May. 2025.

Legal Definition

unemployment insurance

noun
: a social insurance program that provides unemployment compensation for a limited period to involuntarily unemployed workers

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