Leaders with the Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation are scheduled to provide the update over Zoom at 10 a.m.
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The last week of federal unemployment benefits that was supposed to come this week is now expected next week.
The Southern Nevada Health District on Wednesday said it no longer recommends people who tested positive for COVID-19 be tested again.
Jim Murren, the head of Nevada’s coronavirus response team, said Tuesday the state can do a better job as it waits for a vaccine to become broadly available in the state.
Tuesday marks the beginning of long-awaited payments for some Nevada independent contractors and self-employed workers.
Former DETR employees told the Review-Journal the state agency could be doing a better job preventing fraud while paying out jobless claims quickly.
Nevada’s agency overseeing unemployment insurance suspects anywhere between 133,748 and 185,484 possibly fraudulent jobless claims have been filed.
Southern Nevada homebuilders signed nearly 1,230 sales contracts in June, the most since February.
Hope is dissolving into fear for thousands of unemployed Nevadans as Saturday marks the end of a federal provision that paid an additional $600 a week in unemployment insurance benefits.
“At a point, you just give up,” Laura Shipton said. “It’s been over three months now. It’s never going to happen. It’s a pipe dream.”