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State says some unemployment benefits to end

...or SSB balances will not pay after May 4.The DWLD's Employment Security Division, which administers the Unemployment Insurance Program, will notify affected workers of changes to their benefits, the department said.

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-04-30/state-says-some-unemployment-benefits-e
State
STEP grant applications due next month

...statement.STEP targets training for individuals who have contributed to the Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund and are drawing or have exhausted their unemployment insurance benefits.Other criteria for trainees include Alaskans who are employed...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-03-08/step-grant-applications-due-next-month
State
Labor vet to head unemployment insurance program

...Labor veteran has been tapped to run the state unemployment insurance program. Bill Kramer worked for the Employment...54,500 people for an average of 14 weeks. Unemployment insurance call centers are in Anchorage, Fairbanks and...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/101402/loc_laborvet.shtml
News
Parnell, Egan oppose UI rate hikes

...hit with an increase in unemployment insurance rates, even while the state's...itself is dropping and the unemployment insurance trust fund holds $234 million...Alaskans to pay more for unemployment insurance when the UI fund is clearly...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2011-12-06/parnell-egan-oppose-ui-rate-hikes
State
Study says most seafood workers live out of state

...workers stay for only one or two quarters of the year.The authors used Alaska Permanent Fund dividend records and unemployment insurance data to reach their conclusions.The Kodiak Island Borough had the third-most seafood workers of any Alaska...

http://juneauempire.com/2013-02-08/study-says-most-seafood-workers-live-out-stat

...money to help employers keep workers on the job, who would otherwise be laid off due to weak demand. State unemployment insurance funds are used, with reimbursement from the federal government; pay is reduced but not as much as hours. This...

http://juneauempire.com/not-web/2012-12-28
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Alaska unemployment tax rates to rise

...contributing more to fund the state's unemployment insurance program. Alaska is unusual in...are required to pay into the Unemployment Insurance fund. The increase will raise the unemployment insurance tax rate from the current 1.31...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/120310/loc_745154666.shtml
News
Juneau Empire Online Community: Coate retires from Labor 7/24/98

...24, 1998 Jim Coate, unemployment insurance director for the Alaska...Under his leadership, the unemployment insurance program progressed from...nationally in the area of unemployment insurance automation. He has actively...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/072498/coate.html
State to keep most employees in the 'Plywood Palace'

...November.The work groups moving to the valley will be Network Services and the Employment Security Division's Unemployment Insurance call center.Jones said he wasn't sure where in the Mendenhall Mall the new space would be located, but other...

http://juneauempire.com/local/2012-06-19/state-keep-most-employees-plywood-palac
Local
Myers pleads guilty to probation violations

...misrepresentation, and false statements based after Myers accepted money for performing work while also accepting unemployment insurance claims."Is he still going to be subject to criminal liability?" Levy asked. "And is there an issue of...

http://juneauempire.com/local/2011-06-02/myers-pleads-guilty-probation-violation
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