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HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Help is on the way for struggling Texans looking for their stimulus payment or those in need of more unemployment benefits. This week, the IRS sent out eight million pre-paid debit cards. This comes after the government mistakenly sent millions of payments to tax preparers instead of taxpayers. Earlier this week, H&R Block started to return payments. TurboTax said they also started to return millions of stimulus payments in a statement released on Friday: "Stimulus paym...

When Texans will see second COVID-19 stimulus relief in their accounts KTRK Share: The COVID-19 relief bill signing was the Christmas gift Houstonian Ryan Reynolds was waiting for. "I probably wouldve run out of money to pay my rent," Reynolds said. "My lease is up in January. I probably wouldve had to move back home to Arkansas, or move in with a friend, and live on their couch for a little while. I really dont know what wouldve happened." The Houston man has been out of work in the oil indust...

New unemployment claims down; continued claims up MGN Online and last updated 2020-12-28 18:01:29-05 Louisiana officials say the initial unemployment insurance claims for the week ending December 19, 2020 dropped to 7,926 from the week ending December 12, 2020 total of 9,289. For a comparison, during the week ending December 21, 2019, 2,218 initial claims were filed. The four-week moving average of initial claims decreased to 9,527 from the previous week’s average of 10,057. The unemploy...

Herald Democrat The Sherman-Denison unemployment rate rose for the month of November as it continued its rollercoaster course through the fall and winter months. The Texas Workforce commission released its monthly job report for November, which reported that the local unemployment rate rose 1.1 percent for the month. This continued a four-month back-and-forth as the rate has bounced between 5 and 6 percent. "If I had been making predictions of what would happen from October to December, I woul...

Louisiana job numbers show mixed picture Louisiana gained 18,500 nonfarm jobs in November, though the state still had 90,200 fewer jobs than at the same time last year, according to federal statistics the Louisiana Workforce Commission cited Friday. Since the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in April 2020, Louisiana has added 175,200 jobs, the Workforce Commission says. The job numbers have been adjusted to reflect seasonal employment trends. Louisiana’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate f...

Baton Rouge / louisianaradionetwork.com Dec 22, 2020 11:17 AM The state unemployment rate fell 1.1 percent from October to 8.3 percent in November as we continue slowly regaining jobs lost earlier in the pandemic. Workforce Commission Secretary Ava Dejoie said every single market except Hammond gained jobs month-to-month. “We are up 175,000 jobs from our April numbers, which were the first numbers that showed the effects of the pandemic,” said Dejoie. Month-to-month the state is up 18,500 j...

Unemployment rate increases in Hidalgo County, Cameron County 3 months 1 week 4 days ago Friday, December 18 2020 Dec 18, 2020 December 18, 2020 11:33 AM December 18, 2020 in News - Local Share: More people in the Rio Grande Valley found themselves unemployed in November as the number of jobs dropped and more people entered the workforce. The unemployment rate in Hidalgo County increased from 10.3% in October to 12.5% in December, according to data published Friday by the Texas Workforce Commis...

Unemployment rate increases in Hidalgo County, Cameron County 3 months 1 week 6 days ago Friday, December 18 2020 Dec 18, 2020 December 18, 2020 11:33 AM December 18, 2020 in News - Local Share: More people in the Rio Grande Valley found themselves unemployed in November as the number of jobs dropped and more people entered the workforce. The unemployment rate in Hidalgo County increased from 10.3% in October to 12.5% in December, according to data published Friday by the Texas Workforce Commis...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Unless federal or state funding comes soon, business owners in Texas could soon be hit with a tax increase to cover unemployment benefits paid out during the pandemic. La Taste owner, Patrick Meeks, normally receives the unemployment business tax rate in December, but so far, it hasnt arrived. "Now that you mention it, I wouldve wondered at some point because Im particularly sensitive to that," Meeks recalled. For 35 years, hes owned La Taste in Rice Village. But 2020 h...

Houma gained 500 jobs in October but remained down 4,500 compared to a year earlier, the latest state figures show. The metro area, comprised of Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes, posted a 7.9% unemployment rate in October, up from 6.8% in September and 4.7% a year ago, according to the Louisiana Workforce Commission. The area has lost jobs year-to-year for eight straight months. The number of people working locally, 83,126, is down 1,488 from February, the month before the COVID-19 pandem...