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Colorado to start rolling out federal unemployment benefits next week; unemployment rate hits 8.4% FPUC weekly benefit will be first to roll out Colorado plans to start rolling out benefits in phases for people eligible for some federal unemployment benefits starting “late next week” and will begin notifying those people early next week, officials with the Department of Labor and Employment said Friday. By: Blair Miller , Liz Gelardi Posted at 8:24 AM, Jan 25, 2021 and last updated 2021-01-25 10:24:57-05 DENVER – Colorado plans...

Colorado implementing new ID requirement for unemployment; officials hopeful to clear fraud New ID.me system to be implemented by Jan. 26 The CDLE will partner with ID.me to implement an identification verification system required under the latest federal stimulus package that officials also hope will cut down on the amount of fraud within both the regular and federal unemployment insurance system. By: Blair Miller , Liz Gelardi Posted at 5:00 PM, Jan 14, 2021 and last updated 2021-01-14 21:07:32-05 DENVER – The Colorado Department of La...

Unemployed in Colorado await additional federal assistance Published Unemployed in Colorado await additional federal assistance COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) - Experts are weighing in on unemployment in Colorado as we near the end of 2020. The Colorado Department of Labor and Employment (CDLE) reported the unemployment rate was 12.2 percent at the height of the pandemic in April -- the highest rate on record. The CDLE reported the unemployment rate was 6.4 percent as of November -- still more than twice as high as it averaged for all of last year. Sunday, ...

Colorado’s unemployment rate for November remained unchanged from the prior month, but that wasn’t true in the six-county region. Statewide, the rate remained at 6.4% over the month, slightly better than the national rate of 6.7%. At the same time, Colorado has seen a job recovery rate that, too, was better than the national rate of 55.6%. But in the six area counties — Delta, Garfield, Mesa, Moffat, Montrose and Rio Blanco — the unemployment rate increased by as much as half a percentage point, ranging from 4.7% in November for Rio Blanco County to 6% in Mesa County and G...

DENVER — The statewide unemployment rate in Colorado was unchanged from October to November at 6.4% but likely doesn’t include the full extent of job losses caused by several counties moving to Level Red COVID restrictions. The data, released Friday morning by the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment, showed 6,900 non-farm payroll jobs were lost between the two months to just more than 2.68 million, the first time that has happened since May. Those losses were led by 6,400 job cuts in the leisure and hospitality industry, followed by 3,800 cuts in education and health jobs and 2,00...