Nearly 1.5 million Virginians have filed for benefits in the year since the COVID pandemic started destroying jobs. In that time, the Virginia Employment Commission has sent benefits to 1.3 million of ...

MIDLOTHIAN, Va. -- The CBS6 Problem Solvers continues to hear from viewers about fraud cases involving the Virginia Employment Commission. A Midlothian man says the VEC started sending him letters in ...

RICHMOND, Va. -- When Seon Kennedy was let go from his management job at a Henrico rehab center in January, he never expected to still be waiting to receive his unemployment benefits in May. “Right ...

CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. -- As the Virginia Employment Commission tries to resolve tens of thousands of fraud cases, a teacher in Chesterfield says they just sent her a bill for $7,000. Michelle ...

Just when local school systems are struggling to recruit more bus drivers so that kids can get to class, word comes that some drivers are being expected to repay COVID unemployment benefits. “How the ...

HENRICO, Va, (WRIC) — After checking the status of an unemployment claim with the Virginia Employment Commission, a Henrico woman was stunned to discover she had access to 90 pages of confidential ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WDBJ) - The Virginia Employment Commission continues to deal with the problems that plagued the state agency during the pandemic. Monday afternoon, the VEC Commissioner said the agency ...

The VEC, with help from a private contractor, last week reached Northam's goal of clearing 10,000 of those cases a week, Healy said. But JLARC staff cautioned legislators that while the VEC is ...

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)- A woman waiting on her unemployment benefits to resume since May says her payments went to the wrong place and she is not alone. Reeka Faison from Newport News believes her bank ...

Perhaps it’s because the Virginia Employment Commission spent too much of its time (and your money) on fraudulent payments. The VEC suspects it paid more than $40 million in unemployment funds to ...