Many people who were waiting on the state to verify their eligibility for unemployment benefits reported them being resolved last week.

The Department of Workforce Development requested to borrow $300 million from the federal government to pay state unemployment insurance claims.

The extra $300 will go to anyone who lost their job due to COVID-19 and was eligible for $100 or more of unemployment benefits between June 26 and Sept. 5. The program, called Lost Wages Assistance, was created through an executive order from President Donald Trump.

It's estimated that roughly 17 percent of those on the state's unemployment program dont receive enough to be eligible.

A group of Hoosiers are asking the state to address what they call "disconcerting problems" with the unemployment system.

A new online employment website aims to help people in Marion County connect with jobs and get needed training.

The Lost Wage Assistance Program will be available for out of work Hoosiers backdated to Aug. 1. Federal guidelines say workers must have received benefits of at least $100 under state or federal unemployment programs to be eligible.

Some workers say they've waited weeks, sometimes months, for any payment at all from the Department of Workforce Development.

Indiana's unemployment insurance trust fund will be depleted in September if Hoosiers continue seeking assistance for joblessness at the current pace due to the coronavirus pandemic, a state official says.

More than 400,000 Hoosiers would lose, on average, about 46 percent of their unemployment benefits under the proposed federal HEALS Act thats according to a recent analysis by The Century Foundation, a progressive think tank.