For an individual to receive their weekly unemployment benefits, they must file their Weekly Certification by Sunday of each week they are unemployed.
Filing your Weekly Certification can be compared to filling out a weekly timesheet.
Tri-Parish jobless rates down from a year ago
Staff Report
Louisiana’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate decreased to 4.6 percent in December. This is the eighth consecutive month the unemployment rate has declined.
June unemployment rates in the Tri-Parish area improved from a year ago, but the workforce has yet to catch up to the 2016 numbers, according to Bureau of Labor and Statistics data released by the Louisiana Workforce Commission.
Tri-Parish unemployment rates are down in February compared to a year ago, but the work force is also down, according to Bureau of Labor and Statistics data released by the Louisiana Workforce Commission.