Iowa's Workforce System Overhaul Aims to Simplify Job Searches, Unemployment Claims

Iowa's unemployment system overhaul aims to streamline claims and job searches

Iowa's unemployment system is undergoing a major overhaul this week as Iowa Workforce Development prepares to launch a new centralized platform that will stream

Iowa's workforce system overhaul aims to simplify job searches, unemployment claims

Current systemt to go off line on Tuesday.

Iowa launching new system for processing unemployment claims

Iowa is shuttering its decades-old system for processing unemployment insurance claims, replacing it with a system that is expected to make it easier for Iowans to file for joblessness benefits and look for jobs. Since the early 1970s, Iowa joblessness benefits have been processed by a state computer mainframe. Participation in reemployment activities such as…

IWD to deploy modernized unemployment system

Unemployed workers in Iowa soon will be accessing a new system in order to process their unemployment insurance claims and search for jobs. Iowa Workforce Development (IWD) announced Tuesday, May 27, that its decades-old system would temporarily go dark at the end of the day – making Tuesday the last day that any initial or […]The post IWD to deploy modernized unemployment system appeared first on Corridor Business Journal.

Iowa Workforce Development making change in unemployment filing system

(Radio Iowa) – Iowa Workforce Development is shutting down its system for filing unemployment claims tonight (Tuesday) as they move to upgrade it. I-W-D spokesperson Jesse Dougherty says they are merging the system with the IowaWorks.com system, where you go to get training or find a new job. “That means for Iowans on a daily basis, if they’re filing for unemployment or employers who are working in the unemployment system, they’re going to be op…