Texas Workforce Commission

The Texas Workforce Commission is offering a special childcare subsidy for parents in the service industry. Diana Zoga reports.

The Texas Workforce Commission is offering a special childcare subsidy for parents in the service industry.

Texas added 43,900 jobs in June and the state unemployment rate dropped slightly from 6.6% in May to 6.5% in June, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, who released its estimated June employment numbers Friday.

Federal pandemic unemployment benefits under the American Rescue Plan end Saturday for Texans.

Roughly half a million Texans will be impacted by changes to unemployment benefits set to take effect Saturday, according to the Texas Workforce Commission.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) says Texas will opt out of further federal unemployment compensation related to the COVID-19 pandemic next month, thereby ending the $300 weekly unemployment supplement from the federal government, in order to help unemployed Texans get back to work and to curtail fraudulent unemployment claims. NBC 5 talked with James Bernsen with the Texas Workforce Commission…

The Tarrant County Criminal District Attorney’s Office is warning Texans about the latest identity theft scam happening around the country.

A Garland man may finally have a resolution following months of waiting for unemployment benefits after someone else used his identity to cash in.

A Garland man may finally have a resolution following months of waiting for unemployment benefits after someone else used his identity to cash in.

Unless Congress approves another round of extra unemployment insurance, the Texas Workforce Commission tells NBC 5 Responds as many as 830,000 Texans may see benefits expire by the end of this year.

The Texas Workforce Commission says as many as 830,000 Texans will be impacted by expiring unemployment benefits extended by the CARES Act. Those benefits are, by law, ending unless federal lawmakers pass new legislation.The TWC says most of the 830,0000 should still be elgible for another extended state benefit. However, NBC 5 Responds reporter Diana Zoga explains previously self-employed people…

The unemployment rate in Texas has decreased by 8% in the month of July, and 31,400 non-farm job positions have been added.

The Texas Workforce Commission has applied for an additional federal unemployment benefit that would give qualifying Texans an additional $300 per week. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott made the announcement Thursday morning, saying the TWC had requested funds being made available through President Donald Trump’s Lost Wage Assistance Executive Order. Trump’s Executive Order provides $300 a week in additional unemployment payments…

A North Texas teacher reached out to the NBC 5 Responds team after receiving notice of unemployment benefits in the mail – even though she didn’t file.

Some frustrated unemployed Texans still can’t get unemployment checks after weeks of trying to reach the Texas Workforce Commission through jammed phone lines. And if calls are answered, some callers said they still cannot get the help they need. NBC 5’s Scott Friedman reports.

Some frustrated unemployed Texans still can’t get unemployment checks after weeks of trying to reach the Texas Workforce Commission through jammed phone lines. And if calls are answered, some callers said they still cannot get the help they need.

On Friday, the additional $600 per week in benefits set aside as part of the CARES Act for out-of-work Americans expires. NBC 5’s Alanna Quillen reports, for many families, the extra cash has been a lifeline, covering food, housing, and medicine.

On Friday, the additional $600 per week in benefits set aside as part of the CARES Act for out-of-work Americans expires. For many families, the extra cash has been a lifeline, covering food, housing, and medicine.

By the end of this week, unemployed Texans will see a dramatic drop in benefits when a supplemental federal benefit of $600 a week expires.

By the end of this week, unemployed Texans will see a dramatic drop in benefits when a supplemental federal benefit of $600 a week expires.