NORFOLK, Va. — The Virginia Employment Commission is no longer requiring unemployed workers to use PINs to file weekly or continued claims for benefits. A VEC spokeswoman said the policy change is ...
Nearly 1.5 million Virginians have filed for benefits in the year since the COVID pandemic started destroying jobs. In that time, the Virginia Employment Commission has sent benefits to 1.3 million of ...
Virginia law now subjects employers to increased penalties if they fail to respond to Virginia Employment Commission (VEC) requests for unemployment benefits information within 10 days. Effective July ...
MIDLOTHIAN, Va. -- The CBS6 Problem Solvers continues to hear from viewers about fraud cases involving the Virginia Employment Commission. A Midlothian man says the VEC started sending him letters in ...
The VEC, with help from a private contractor, last week reached Northam's goal of clearing 10,000 of those cases a week, Healy said. But JLARC staff cautioned legislators that while the VEC is ...
HENRICO, Va, (WRIC) — After checking the status of an unemployment claim with the Virginia Employment Commission, a Henrico woman was stunned to discover she had access to 90 pages of confidential ...
RICHMOND, Va. -- A decades-old computer system and not enough staff to answer phones were two causes of the months-long delay some out-of-work Virginians experienced while waiting for help from the ...
Just when local school systems are struggling to recruit more bus drivers so that kids can get to class, word comes that some drivers are being expected to repay COVID unemployment benefits. “How the ...
CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. -- As the Virginia Employment Commission tries to resolve tens of thousands of fraud cases, a teacher in Chesterfield says they just sent her a bill for $7,000. Michelle ...