More Americans are turning to food banks to help fill the assistance gap, but administrators caution they aren't designed to act as a safety net for a government program.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- A recent deadline extension is giving Americans a few more months to have their stolen Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits reimbursed by the federal government. In 2022, Congress passed a law requiring states to ...

Reopening the federal government with extended health care tax credits is the first step to allowing Americans continued access to public benefits like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, U.

When Congress returns next week, Democratic leaders will take up legislation to extend unemployment benefits for the eighth time since 2008. Much of the fight to pass the bill will revolve around whether to pay for the cost of extending these benefits or ...

SALEM -- Oregonians on unemployment don't need to do anything to continue benefits that were threatened until a federal bailout was made final Thursday. Department staff will move Oregonians into the new program automatically, said spokesman Tom Fuller of ...

The unemployment compensation system in the United States operates as a joint federal-state program. Unlike a direct federal unemployment program, the federal government supports states in funding and implementing state-sponsored unemployment benefits.

Financial advisors should help workplace retirement plan sponsors extend benefits to retired employees, according to a report issued by Mercer and the Stanford Center on Longevity. The extended benefits would not be excessively expensive for the employer ...

DENVER – Some Coloradans who have desperately been waiting for federal extended unemployment benefits to come online in the state will start seeing some relief this weekend and early next week, the state department of labor and employment said Thursday.