Today, the Vermont Department of Labor released data on the Vermont economy for the time period covering January 2021. According to household data, the
The Vermont Department of Labor is warning residents who filed for unemployment to be careful of scams that have recently emerged online.
These phishing attempts are happening nationally through social media, according to alerts from the National Unemployment Insurance Fraud Task Force. Fraudulent social media pages are attempting to communicate directly with people who have claimed unemployment insurance.
Vermont labor officials are warning residents to only contact the department s office through official or verified means.
How to detect unemployment scams
Vermont s Labor Department issued a series of tips to ensure Vermonters avoid falling victim to the scam attempts.
Vermont s Department of Labor will never charge a fee to file unemployment claims. Any call in which the person claims to be from the Labor Department and asks for payment is a scam. Department officials say they will never ask for payment over the phone to establish or review an unemployment claim.
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Weekly UI Report
Regular weekly UI claims in Vermont last week decreased by 13 to 990 (up 544 from the same time last year, which was before the pandemic hit).
Claims had fallen for five consecutive weeks before jumping up again two weeks ago.
As for ongoing jobless claims, for the week ending February 20, 2021, the Labor Department processed 13,185 claims, up 95 from the previous week and 7,520 more than the same time last year.
As for further comparison, initial Vermont claims for the week of March 21, 2020 (the first full week of the pandemic in Vermont), were 3,784, up 3,125 from the week of March 14.
Labor Commissioner Harrington has said at Governor Scott s media briefings that the new federal stimulus and unemployment money will help Vermonters, even though the unemployment rate is on paper at the same level as it was just before the pandemic led to historic unemployment levels.
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