Arizona employers are going to be shelling out more later this year to keep each worker on the payroll.

More than 70,000 Arizonans who have lost their jobs will be getting an extra $25 a week. Gov. Jan Brewer has agreed to accept extra funds for unemployment benefits made available to the state as part of the federal stimulus package, Capitol Media Services has learned.

 Valley residents out of work six months or longer don’t have to worry about losing their unemployment insurance benefits for another five weeks under a $10 billion measure passed by the U.S. Senate late Tuesday and signed into law by President Barack Obama.

The state department that administers unemployment benefits is closing a call center and will require all new filings from people who lose their jobs be done online starting Feb. 1.

The state is hiring 45 new workers at its Phoenix unemployment office as the number of claims soars because of the soured economy.

State lawmakers voted to make it easier for full-time students to qualify for unemployment insurance.

Saying it should be no different than applying for a job, state lawmakers are moving to allow the Department of Economic Security to require drug tests of those seeking unemployment insurance.

The state’s jobless rate may finally have stabilized, but the bill is coming due for the high unemployment of the last few years.

David Wells: At a recent community meeting on the state’s budget crisis with Republican and Democratic legislators, a courageous Karen Ickes shared her family crisis. Both she and her husband are unemployed, but, after losing her job, for eight weeks her family had to survive without receiving an unemployment check.

Thousands of Arizonans are on the verge of losing their jobless benefits because of a single word in state law.

Thousands of Arizonans are on the verge of losing their jobless benefits because of a single word in state law.

Thousands of Arizonans are on the verge of losing their jobless benefits because of a single word in state law.

State lawmakers refused Monday to change laws to extend jobless benefits, meaning the checks that about 15,000 Arizonans get this week are likely their last.

Hundreds of teachers at religious schools around the state could soon be at risk of being laid off with no prospect of collecting jobless benefits.

A House panel voted narrowly Thursday to require drug testing of those who want jobless benefits.

Saying it will help prevent fraud, state lawmakers voted Wednesday to impose new burdens on some people seeking unemployment insurance.

Governors are certainly within their rights when they veto bills they believe would be bad for the state. And the Arizona Legislature churns out plenty of those.

More than a third of Arizonans collecting jobless benefits could be getting their final checks this week.

More than $140 million in federal funds that could be used to help cover an increase in the unemployment insurance benefit has been sitting in a state trust fund since mid-2002, according to the Arizona Department of Economic Security.

Arizonans who are out of work may soon be able to get on-the-job training without losing their unemployment benefits.

Arizona’s unemployment insurance program is more focused on paying benefits than putting people to work, a study commissioned by the Goldwater Institute states.

The U.S. Labor Department will provide more than $4.4 million for technology upgrades to Arizona's strained unemployment insurance system.

David Schapira, D-Tempe, was 100 percent wrong about unemployment benefits in his guest editorial ("AZ Republicans putting ideology ahead of problems", June 10). I've owned an actual bricks-and-mortar business of 10 employees for 14 years. Employers like me pay 100 percent of unemployment insurance taxes in Arizona, not Schapira's mythical employees "paying into the system."

A state Senate committee will consider an amendment Wednesday to increase the maximum, weekly unemployment insurance benefit to $240 by summer 2004.