RICHMOND, Va. -- With the U.S. economy humming along, and with unemployment near record lows, the pandemic may seem long ago. But it's not exactly in the rear-view mirror for the Virginia Employment ...

Virginia law now subjects employers to increased penalties if they fail to respond to Virginia Employment Commission (VEC) requests for unemployment benefits information within 10 days. Effective July ...

Gov. Ralph Northam has been great at press conferences on COVID. One thing he still hasn’t gotten down: getting the Virginia Employment Commission in any kind of working order. This week, Sen. Mark ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC)- A woman waiting on her unemployment benefits to resume since May says her payments went to the wrong place and she is not alone. Reeka Faison from Newport News believes her bank ...

Those are the concerns of the General Assembly's watchdog agency, which isn't waiting to bark a warning to frustrated lawmakers. It cites limits to progress made by the Virginia Employment Commission ...

More than 3½ years since the COVID-19 pandemic began, nearly 45,000 Virginians are still waiting for their appeals to be heard on claims for unemployment insurance during the public health emergency.

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The Virginia Employment Commission (VEC) has announced that its pandemic-related unemployment backlogs have been cleared. Governor Glenn Youngkin congratulated the commission in ...

A Flood Watch has already been issued until midnight for points south and east of the D.C. Metro area. by Scott Taylor TOPICS: The Virginia Employment Commission tells 7 On Your Side it started on ...

Her priorities also include improving how the VEC communicates to customers “who are already distressed” by communicating the complex rules of unemployment insurance into “plain language” to make them ...

As the COVID-19 pandemic causes greater unemployment, legislation from Del. Sally Hudson, D-Charlottesville, seeks to fix several issues with the Virginia Employment Commission that have come to the ...