benefits

Some lawmakers are hoping to pass a bill in this lame-duck session of the Legislature that would force new teachers into a 401(k)-style retirement system,…

Michigan Sen. Rick Jones, R-Grand Ledge, this week introduced legislation that would get rid of health benefits for domestic partners of state…

Anybody who's out of work in Michigan knows they can't get an unemployment check for as long as they used to. Ever since the federal government stopped…

Emergency unemployment benefits and senatorial "jitters" over an Enbridge oil pipeline running through the Straits of Mackinac: Both are issues consuming…

LANSING, Mich. (AP) - The head of Michigan's Unemployment Insurance Agency is defending his agency's decision to not attend some insurance fraud hearings…

Michigan's new Veterans Affairs Agency director says the state needs to do a better job connecting its nearly 700,000 veterans to services.Jeff Barnes was…

A new report from Michigan’s Auditor General shows problems with determining eligibility for some public assistance programs.In 2008, Auditor General…

Politically speaking, this has been the year of Rick Snyder. Since he first burst on the scene two years ago, he has had an astonishing run of success.…

Welfare recipients could not use their state-issued debit cards to draw cash from casino ATMs or buy lottery tickets, alcohol and tobacco under…

State House Republican leaders failed to muster enough votes to reverse health benefits for the live-in partners of state employees. The new policy will…