NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — Lisa Austin and her husband are now happy in their Newport News home, after they both lost their jobs in the Spring of 2020 during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Austin ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The Virginia Employment Commission (VEC) incorrectly sent a Fluvanna County woman sensitive information about a person unknown to her who lives in Fredericksburg; the second ...

NORFOLK, Va. — The Virginia Employment Commission is no longer requiring unemployed workers to use PINs to file weekly or continued claims for benefits. A VEC spokeswoman said the policy change is ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC)-Upgrades to Virginia’s outdated unemployment system are being delayed until early November, about one month after the long-anticipated Oct. 1 launch date. That’s also pushing back ...

RICHMOND, Va. -- The Virginia Employment Commission (VEC) still has over 100,000 unemployment insurance claims to examine and possibly one million claim issues to resolve, according to the Joint ...

Employers across the Commonwealth are now required to register with the Virginia Employment Commission and file documents associated with unemployment claims through electronic means. More than ...

RICHMOND, Va. -- New details regarding the class-action lawsuit filed in May 2021 against the Virginia Employment Commission (VEC) showed that while the agency has made significant progress paying ...

Months after a watchdog agency began its review, people who lose their jobs still find that when they turn to the Virginia Employment Commission, they are met with long delays and unanswered calls ...

The Virginia Employment Commission told a federal court on Thursday that it has made significant progress in resolving an enormous backlog of unemployment benefits claims filed by Virginians during ...