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Labor Department looks to pilot intaking unemployment claims for states

  • Natalie Alms--Nextgov
  • published date: 2025-10-09 21:06:00 UTC

The effort follows the department’s notice that it may create a national claims database, a move critics say raises cybersecurity, privacy and surveillance risks.

The Trump administration is planning to test the feasibility of the Labor Department doing unemployment claims intake instead of states, according to a late August email sent from the department to s… [+4026 chars]