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HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Help is on the way for struggling Texans looking for their stimulus payment or those in need of more unemployment benefits. This week, the IRS sent out eight million pre-paid debit cards. This comes after the government mistakenly sent millions of payments to tax preparers instead of taxpayers. Earlier this week, H&R Block started to return payments. TurboTax said they also started to return millions of stimulus payments in a statement released on Friday: "Stimulus payments for millions of TurboTax customers affected by the IRS error will be deposited starting today, ...

When Texans will see second COVID-19 stimulus relief in their accounts KTRK Share: The COVID-19 relief bill signing was the Christmas gift Houstonian Ryan Reynolds was waiting for. "I probably would've run out of money to pay my rent," Reynolds said. "My lease is up in January. I probably would've had to move back home to Arkansas, or move in with a friend, and live on their couch for a little while. I really don't know what would've happened." The Houston man has been out of work in the oil industry for seven months. His unemployment benefits were set to expire, but after signing the COVID-1...

New unemployment claims down; continued claims up MGN Online and last updated 2020-12-28 18:01:29-05 Louisiana officials say the initial unemployment insurance claims for the week ending December 19, 2020 dropped to 7,926 from the week ending December 12, 2020 total of 9,289. For a comparison, during the week ending December 21, 2019, 2,218 initial claims were filed. The four-week moving average of initial claims decreased to 9,527 from the previous week’s average of 10,057. The unemployment insurance continued claims for the week ending December 19, 2020 decreased to 64,448 from the w...

Herald Democrat The Sherman-Denison unemployment rate rose for the month of November as it continued its rollercoaster course through the fall and winter months. The Texas Workforce commission released its monthly job report for November, which reported that the local unemployment rate rose 1.1 percent for the month. This continued a four-month back-and-forth as the rate has bounced between 5 and 6 percent. "If I had been making predictions of what would happen from October to December, I would think we would go down half a point to 4.5 (percent)," Workforce Solutions Texoma Executive Direct...

Louisiana job numbers show mixed picture Louisiana gained 18,500 nonfarm jobs in November, though the state still had 90,200 fewer jobs than at the same time last year, according to federal statistics the Louisiana Workforce Commission cited Friday. Since the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in April 2020, Louisiana has added 175,200 jobs, the Workforce Commission says. The job numbers have been adjusted to reflect seasonal employment trends. Louisiana’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for November is 8.3 percent, down from October’s rate of 9.4 percent. The November 2019 rate was 5....