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Issue brief volume 20-13
Description
This issue brief provides an overview of the Colorado unemployment insurance (UI) program, including UI benefits, funding, and solvency in the context of recent economic downturns. Economic downturns result in increased claims on regular state UI benefits. The speed and intensity of changes in UI claims during the COVID-19 Pandemic have been unprecedented.
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Issue brief volume 16-23
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Unemployment insurance (UI) provides temporary, partial wage replacement to workers who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own.
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REDI report volume 2021, June
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
The federal-state system of unemployment insurance (UI) in the US, designed to protect laid-off workers, is coming under pressure for an overhaul following the pandemic. Using the US Department of Labor's Quarterly UI Data Summary, this report will outline a number of facets pertaining to Colorado's own UI experience since 1980.
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Working paper volume 5
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
In 2014, US states paid a total of $36 billion in Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits. Out of this amount, $4.5 billion were overpayments to beneficiaries. This estimate is based on audit data collected by the Department of Labor (DOL) which has historically monitored the UI system in each state for compliance with federal rules.