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Is Pennsylvania rushing the rollout of its new unemployment system?

Pennsylvania’s 40-year-old unemployment filing system will go offline next week and a new system that officials say will be faster and easier to use will take its place. The transition means the state will not take new applications for unemployment benefits from Monday to June 7, and people already receiving

Pennsylvania's unemployment system will go offline next week and a new, faster and easier to use system is set to go live June 8.

Joe Napsha | Tribune-Review   TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. Beginning July 18, Pennsylvania’s unemployed workers again will have to prove they applied for two jobs per week to continue to receive jobless benefits, a state labor official said Monday. Unemployed workers also must register for job search services with the PA CareerLink offices. The requirements were suspended last year as part of Gov. Tom Wolf’s measures to limit the spread of covid, and the state’s CareerLink offices were closed to ...

UpdatedThu, May 6, 2021 at 3:56 pm ET Replies(50) New legislation in the Pennsylvania legislature would lift the pandemic's pause on a job search requirement for those receiving unemployment benefits. (Shutterstock) PENNSYLVANIA — Pennsylvania lawmakers are considering legislation that would restart the work search requirement for those collecting unemployment. The effort comes in the midst of a recent move to that effect in Florida, from Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. The work search requirement had been suspended during the pandemic in many places around the country, including Pennsylvani...