The Senate early Saturday passed a two-year reauthorization of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act’s (FISA) warrantless ...

The Senate has a golden opportunity to protect independent journalism and promote media diversity. This is the time for ...

South Carolina is already among the nation's hardest states to earn unemployment benefits. Amid an influx of the population ...

The Senate is expected to begin procedural votes on the foreign aid package passed by the House on Saturday. Sen. Michael ...

House Democrats pushed through an expansion of the state's Paid Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program Wednesday that ...

The law lapsed only briefly after a late-night deal that allowed votes on privacy advocates’ proposed changes, all of which ...

Gov. Glenn Youngkin signed several bills intended to help those who were inaccurately approved for unemployment benefits. One of the bills requires the Virginia Employment Commission to notify ...

Do You Pay Back Unemployment Benefits? Many states – Connecticut, Colorado, Florida, Illinois and Ohio, to name a few – have found they overpaid unemployment benefits during the past year.

You have to pay federal income taxes on unemployment benefits, but these payments are not subject to Social Security and Medicare taxes. Some states exclude unemployment benefits from income.

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