by Staff
Published: September 25, 2009
Tags: Dan McElroy, Department of Employment and Economic Development, Unemployment insurance
Minnesota’s unemployment insurance trust fund is currently running about a $23 million deficit, but that won’t prevent jobless workers from continuing to receive benefits, according to state Department of Employment and Economic Development Commissioner Dan McElroy.
by Steve Perry
Published: June 25, 2009
Tags: Lee Nelson, Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Develop, Minnesota unemployment insurance trust fund, Robert Pavosevich, Unemployment insurance
Meet Minnesota’s other looming fiscal crisis–the one nobody’s talking about publicly yet. Strained to its limits by the length and depth of the recession, the state’s unemployment insurance (UI) system has just a month’s worth of reserves left. And the program’s administrators say that current projections indicate it will enter permanent deficit by the end of [...]
by Steve Perry
Published: June 25, 2009
Tags: Lee Nelson, Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Develop, Minnesota unemployment insurance trust fund, Robert Pavosevich, Unemployment insurance
Meet Minnesota’s other looming fiscal crisis–the one nobody’s talking about publicly yet. Strained to its limits by the length and depth of the recession, the state’s unemployment insurance (UI) system has just a month’s worth of reserves left. And the program’s administrators say that current projections indicate it will enter permanent deficit by the end of [...]
by Steve Perry
Published: June 11, 2009
Tags: Minnesota economy, Minnesota unemployment insurance trust fund, U.S. Department of Labor, Unemployment insurance
The wretched economy is laying waste not only to the state’s general fund budget, but its unemployment insurance (UI) trust fund as well. At the end of 2008, the fund that pays Minnesota unemployment claims stood at $508 million. According to U.S. Department of Labor calculations, that represented reserves equal to about four months (0.34 [...]
by Steve Perry
Published: June 11, 2009
Tags: Minnesota economy, Minnesota unemployment insurance trust fund, U.S. Department of Labor, Unemployment insurance
The wretched economy is laying waste not only to the state’s general fund budget, but its unemployment insurance (UI) trust fund as well. At the end of 2008, the fund that pays Minnesota unemployment claims stood at $508 million. According to U.S. Department of Labor calculations, that represented reserves equal to about four months (0.34 [...]
