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Northam plan to protect employers from paying higher unemployment insurance taxes
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Governor Northam Announces Plan to Protect Virginia Employers from Paying Higher Unemployment Insurance Taxes
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WINCHESTER â Initial unemployment claims rose in Clarke and Warren counties just before Christmas, according to data from the Virginia Employment Commission.
Both counties saw a double-digit increase in initial jobless claims for the week ending Dec. 19 after seeing double-digit decreases the week before.
For the week ending Dec. 19, Clarke County had 46 initial claims, which is 30 more than it had the previous week. Warren County had 45 initial claims, 10 more than the previous week.
Both of those counties, however, were lower than Frederick Countyâs 54 initial jobless claims for the week ending Dec. 19, despite that number dropping by nine from the previous week.
Governor Northam Takes Action to Protect Businesses from Increasing Cost of Unemployment Insurance
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Actions will speed relief to Virginians, help weather pandemic during challenging winter months ~
RICHMOND Governor Ralph Northam today announced temporary changes to the Commonwealth’s Unemployment Insurance (UI) program that will support Virginia workers and businesses whose livelihoods have been affected by the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. Executive Order Seventy-Four requires the Virginia Employment Commission (VEC) to mitigate a potential rise in the UI experience rating tax for businesses by holding them harmless for lay-offs that occurred during the pandemic. The temporary change will protect Virginia businesses from having to pay an additional $200 million to replenish the Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund. The Governor is also directing the VEC to begin automatically distributing UI benefits to unemployed Virginians who have been held in the agency’s determination proce