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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A federal judge has approved a settlement in a lawsuit focused on...

Court settlement orders Virginia to resolve most unemployment claims in massive backlog by Labor Day Teo Armus © Steve Helber/AP Five women sued Virginia Employment Commissioner Ellen Marie Hess, alleging “gross failures” to provide needed help as required by law amid the coronavirus pandemic. The VEC headquarters in Richmond is shown in this April 15 photo. Just six months after she lost her job last year at a Tysons restaurant, Amber Dimmerling’s unemployment benefits vanished. Even as the 40-year-old single mother continued to file weekly claims, she said in a...

A federal lawsuit forces Virginia to own its duty to handle pandemic jobless claims promptly Bob Lewis Amber Dimmerling is scared. She’s angry, too. And she has every right to be. Left jobless when the pandemic crushed the restaurant industry  14 months ago, the 40-year-old single mother did her best to make ends meet and care for her 12-year-old daughter with the weekly Virginia unemployment insurance benefits she initially received. Last September, however, those benefits stopped without explanation. She’s had no chance to appeal her case — rich with documentation —...

Biden sets goal for 70% of Americans to be vaccinated by July 4 Amber Dimmerling has been waiting for answers from the Virginia Employment Commission since September, when the state agency abruptly ended her unemployment insurance benefits. The 40-year-old single mother had moved from her home in McLean to her mother’s house in Fredericksburg after losing her restaurant job in Fairfax County at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic more than a year ago. Now Dimmerling is one of five plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit against the employment commission — and it’s a federal jud...