unemployment

Despite spending $230 million on contracts to staff the unemployment benefits call center and adjudicate claims, many calls and emails from desperate Marylanders go unanswered.

As a result of the preliminary injunction issued Tuesday, Gov. Larry Hogan's administration plans to drop its fight against the two class-action lawsuits.

Unemployed Marylanders get a legal victory. Baltimore’s Inspector General gets a performance review. And Dr. Fauci is unsure when the pandemic will completely subside.

A Baltimore City Circuit judge ruled Tuesday morning that the Hogan administration cannot prematurely cut off federal pandemic unemployment benefits.

More than 80 members of the House of Democrats wrote in a letter Friday that ending unemployment benefits before the federal funding expires in September would have disastrous effects on the state's economy.

Maryland's top court has upheld a temporary restraining order requiring Gov. Larry Hogan's administration to continue issuing pandemic-related unemployment benefits until July 13.

The Maryland unemployment insurance program's work search requirement, which resumes effect on July 3, will not force anyone to take an unsuitable job, Labor Department officials say.

Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott, City Council President Nick Mosby and Comptroller Bill Henry said in a letter Monday that ending the federal expanded unemployment benefits program two months early will disproportionately hurt Baltimore.

Hospitality workers say they still can't find work, and they rely on the unemployment benefits set to end next month.

Democratic Sen. Jim Rosapepe and Republican Sen. Justin Ready offer very different takes on the Governor's move.