The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Senate passed a package of Republican-authored bills designed to force more people into the workforce by tightening the qualifications for receiving unemployment benefits and Medicaid coverage.

The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Senate was poised Tuesday to approve a package of Republican-authored bills designed to force more people into the workforce by tightening eligibility for unemployment benefits and Medicaid coverage.

The Wisconsin Assembly approved a package of Republican-authored bills Thursday designed to force more people into the workforce by tightening eligibility for unemployment benefits and Medicaid coverage.

Wisconsin has entered into a nearly $17 million, multi-year contract with software development company Flexion to update the antiquated system for paying unemployment claims that was overwhelmed last year during the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the state announced Wednesday.

The state Assembly was poised Tuesday to sign off on a bipartisan bill designed to jumpstart updates to Wisconsin's antiquated unemployment claims processing system.

Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development officials said on Thursday they've assigned the last few thousand undecided unemployment claims to adjudicators.

As Wisconsin businesses closed this spring to slow the spread of COVID-19, jobless filings and phone calls flooded the Department of Workforce Development — too quickly for staff employees to keep up. But DWD Secretary Caleb Frostman remained optimistic.

Following a slew of denials, state regulators are now pushing to give federal pandemic aid to laid-off Wisconsinites with disabilities.

It’s now been about two months since Wisconsin’s Safer at Home order went into effect, shutting down many businesses and putting hundreds of thousands of people out of work.

The Wisconsin state Senate passed a sweeping coronavirus relief package during a messy virtual session Wednesday and sent the bill on to Gov. Tony Evers to sign.

Wisconsin Republican legislative leaders said for the first time Wednesday that they support temporarily waiving a one-week waiting period for people to receive unemployment benefits as part of a state aid package in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Gov. Tony Evers wants to boost Wisconsin's unemployment benefits and eliminate some requirements to qualify for them.

State officials are predicting that the current surplus in the state’s unemployment-benefits trust fund will help keep payroll taxes low for employers.

For nearly two decades, Sanjuana Maltos would travel to Wisconsin from her home in Texas to work from June to November for the state’s cannery companies.

The state's Department of Workforce Development is proposing several changes to the state’s unemployment-benefits laws.

Are mere mistakes made on the job enough to deny someone unemployment benefits after they’ve been let go? Or should people be able to receive benefits as long as their firing wasn’t the result of deliberate misdeeds?

Employees cannot be denied unemployment benefits in Wisconsin for inadvertent errors, even if the worker has been repeatedly warned about such errors, a state appeals court ruled Thursday.

A state Assembly panel gave its blessing Tuesday to a proposal that would increase the criminal penalties for fraudulently obtaining unemployment benefits.

Lawmakers on Thursday will consider a proposal that would place steeper criminal penalties on those who defraud the state's unemployment-benefits system.

State officials want to raise more money to fight unemployment benefits fraud and plan to do so without increasing employers' taxes.

Wisconsin labor officials referred 36 unemployment fraud cases to the state Department of Justice during the past year, up from six cases in 2014.

A proposed change to the state’s unemployment insurance statutes could make it easier for jobless benefit claimants to be charged with fraud.

The independent body that reviews administrative law decisions has slammed the state Department of Workforce Development over proposed changes to circuit court reviews of unemployment benefit decisions.

An independent body that reviews unemployment-payment rulings has again taken state officials to task over charging claimants with defrauding Wisconsin's benefits program.

The state’s mandatory professional organization for lawyers is opposing a bill that would ban people who defraud the state’s unemployment insurance program for seven years.

Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel filed a lawsuit Tuesday asking a federal judge to declare that state budget provisions requiring food stamp recipients to undergo drug testing are legal.

After Megan Coronado lost three jobs in 2011, she thought the obvious next step was to file for unemployment benefits.

A debtor who was unable to find a job after a decade-long search met the Bankruptcy Code’s standard for discharge of her student loan debt, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in reversing judgment.

A common dilemma for employers is contesting an unemployment claim now and possibly a discrimination claim by the same former employee later.