Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Not every federal employee who is going without pay because of the government shutdown can draw on state unemployment insurance benefits to cover the gap.

As civilian federal workers in Colorado wait for word as to whether they will be furloughed by a federal government shutdown, the state’s Department of Labor and Employment is reaching out to aid ...

Initial filings for unemployment benefits in Colorado rose last week compared with the week prior, the U.S. Department of Labor said Thursday. New jobless claims, a proxy for layoffs, increased to ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Anthony Battle is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ professional. He earned the Chartered ...

Colorado overpaid people nearly $100 million in unemployment benefits last year alone, and federal data shows the state has ...