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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...