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Colorado's system for unemployment benefits for self-employed, gig workers to launch Monday

DENVER – Coloradans who are eligible for extended federal unemployment benefits under the CARES Act can start applying for those benefits starting Monday, the state Department of Labor and Employment ...
9NEWS

Hundreds of federal workers have filed for unemployment in Colorado

COLORADO, USA — More than 600 workers, laid off by the federal government in recent weeks, have filed for unemployment in Colorado. The Colorado Department of Labor and Employment shared new data on ...
Washington Examiner

Leaked emails suggest Colorado state employees plotted to give illegal immigrants unemployment benefits

“Independence Investigates” has obtained internal emails from the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment (CDLE) showing that a software control intended to prevent the payment of unemployment ...
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Colorado to start rolling out federal unemployment benefits next week; unemployment rate hits 8.4%

DENVER – Colorado plans to start rolling out benefits in phases for people eligible for some federal unemployment benefits starting “late next week” and will begin notifying those people early next ...
9NEWS

Judge blocks layoffs during shutdown amid growing unemployment claims in Colorado

COLORADO, USA — On Wednesday, a federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from laying off federal workers during the government shutdown. It came after the American Federation of ...
Daily Camera

Editorial: Colorado’s workers need a functioning unemployment system

In a world where everything seems to be getting more and more expensive, it should come as no surprise that nearly half of Americans say they live paycheck to paycheck. In Colorado, almost 40% of ...
Government Technology

Colorado’s Effort to Combat UI Fraud Comes With Its Own Problems

(TNS) — The state’s attempt to prevent fraud in its unemployment system is having an unintended consequence: preventing thousands of legitimate claims from being paid. At the beginning of the COVID-19 ...
The Business Journals

Colorado’s unemployment rate holds steady at 2.8%

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min While the national unemployment ...
The Gazette

Colorado unemployment rises to 4.4%, but state of job market murky due to data issues

Colorado’s unemployment rate rose to 4.4% in December, according to the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment, up from 4.3% the month before. The state’s unemployment rate is more than a full ...
Daily Camera

CDLE economist: Job outlook remains strong despite unemployment uptick

While Colorado’s unemployment rate ticked up slightly last month for the first time in more than a year, it’s not time to hit the panic button, experts say. In fact, the minor increase — a 3.4% ...
The Greeley Tribune

State unemployment rate continues decline, now at 3.5%

DENVER — Colorado’s unemployment rate continued its decline, dropping a tenth of a percentage point from 3.6% in October to 3.5% in November. Similar declines were seen in the four counties of ...