unemployment insurance

noun

a government program that provides a limited number of payments to eligible workers who are involuntarily unemployed.

First recorded in 1920–25

At the same time, lower joblessness means fewer people using food stamps, unemployment insurance, and other safety net measures.

But first, this Congress needs to restore the unemployment insurance you just let expire for 1.6 million people.

Last month, when their unemployment insurance was cut off, she sat down and wrote me a letter—the kind I get every day.

The president is framing unemployment insurance extension as a moral test—but he always does.

The pure politics of unemployment insurance is pretty straightforward: supporting it is “better” politically than opposing.

Spends all his time in bars, and never runs out of dough—and don't tell me you can do that on Unemployment Insurance.

Social security and unemployment insurance laws were broadened and strengthened.

Social security has been extended to ten million more Americans and unemployment insurance to four million more.

Legislation was enacted to provide unemployment insurance protection to some four million additional Americans.

We must modernize our unemployment insurance and establish a high-level commission on automation.

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