Lewis, a single mom, first filed for unemployment on March 15, 2020 when her six-year-old daughter’s school was shut down because of the coronavirus pandemic and she didn’t have child care.

In Alabama, the average appeal case was pending 566 days at the Department of Labor, nearly twice as long as the second-most delayed state, Georgia, where appeals were pending 367 days on average.

IN YOUR CORONAVIRUS QUESTIONS, DONNA SAYS, "I HAVE FILED AN APPEAL RELATED TO MY UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS." ... via email or by sending in a letter into the department that initiates your appeal.

Letters like the one Tanner received, informing people if they've been approved or denied benefits, are now being sent out on some 63,000 disputed jobless claims.

An appeals court has ordered Gov. Mike DeWine to take $900 million in federal funds meant to help unemployed Ohioans during ...

State officials are in the process of reviewing and auditing a large number of the unemployment claims they approved over the past year, and they’ve begun to issue thousands of letters ...