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05/13/2022

Idaho Job Corps and the Idaho Department of Labor partner with the College of Western Idaho, College of Eastern Idaho, College of Southern Idaho and North Idaho College to deliver education, training and a whole host of wrap-around services to low-income students with barriers to employment.

NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release: April 4, 2022 Media Contact: Tina Polishchuk, Ed.D, [email protected] When Idaho Job Corps welcomed its first group of students in October 2019 at …

05/10/2022

Did you know there are multiple ways to disqualify yourself from receiving unemployment insurance payments? Check out our latest blog on what to do and not do to make sure you can get paid.

What will disqualify you from collecting unemployment? There’s one thing worse than losing your job: Losing your job and not being able to collect unemployment insurance benefits. Here are some of the reasons why people can get disqualified from receiving unemployment insurance benefits, and how t...

05/09/2022

for a DevOps Senior Engineer! If you're looking for an awesome workplace with some great perks, then SSO could be for you! Apply below!

This position will be at our office in Boise, Idaho Description The DevOps Senior Engineer will have a wealth of knowledge and proven experience in designing software from scratch; knowledge of architecture patterns and have the experience to choose the appropriate cloud solution for the project. Th...

05/08/2022

Happy Mother's Day from all of us at SSO! To show some appreciation to our employees, we gave out these great local handmade candles! We appreciate everyone's hard work and hope you all have a wonderful day!

05/06/2022

What happened when the U.S. gave more people more money, and for longer? UI coverage increased, reaching workers who had historically been left out of the UI system, and boosting the spending of all UI recipients. But there were some comparatively smaller losses in efficiency, in the form of work disincentive effects and UI overpayments.

In chapter 2 of Recession Remedies, authors discuss lessons learned from unemployment insurance during COVID-19.

05/05/2022

Happy Cinco de Mayo! Today we served up tacos and had a guacamole contest in the SSO kitchen. It was delicious! Have a wonderful day everyone!

05/04/2022

With COVID-19 winding down a bit, many states are changing the way they are handling Unemployment Insurance Benefits. The reasons why they're doing it and what those changes might look like can be found in our latest blog. Click below to read now!

Unemployment insurance benefits provided a valuable lifeline to Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic. “As many as 46 million individuals received unemployment payments in 2020, representing 1 out of every 4 workers,” notes the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities. “In the absence of this ...

05/02/2022

We're looking for a Project Manager! Is that you? Come work for us! We offer competitive pay, generous PTO, a hybrid work environment, and much more!

Location: Boise, Idaho. This position will work out of our Downtown Boise Office. Solid State is looking for an organized, detail-oriented individual to join our team as a software project manager. The responsibilities of the software project manager include overseeing software projects from start t...

04/26/2022

You may have heard of Blockchain Technology when it comes to cryptocurrency, but could that same tech be used to help prevent Unemployment Fraud? Find out what Blockchain is and how it could be useful to the UI space in our latest blog:

In an attempt to help thwart unemployment fraud – estimated to have been as much as $87.3 billion nationwide -- California assemblyman Jordan Cunningham (R-Templeton) has put forth AB 2781, which is intended to instruct California’s Office of Digital Innovation to “study the feasibility and ap...

04/22/2022

Happy Earth Day from all of us at SSO! We only get one planet! Do your part to help keep our planet beautiful!

04/22/2022

Synthetic identity fraud schemes have proliferated in the past few years, becoming the largest form of identity theft in the nation.

In addition to the Paycheck Protection Program rip-offs, fraudsters have used synthetic identities in many unemployment benefit

04/19/2022

If you took physics back in high school, you may remember some problems that said: "ignore friction." Did you know that can apply that to Unemployment as well? Our latest blog covering "Frictional Unemployment" is now available! Click below to check it out!

What is "Frictional Unemployment?" When you studied physics in high school or college, you may remember getting homework assignments asking you to calculate the force of two objects on each other, but to “ignore friction.” Typically, that’s because the small amount of force attributed to frict...