People left waiting for months on their unemployment claims during the coronavirus pandemic in Alabama can sue the state, the U.S. Supreme Court said Friday. The 5-4 ruling comes after the Alabama Supreme Court rejected a lawsuit from 21 people,

People left waiting for months on their unemployment claims during the coronavirus pandemic in Alabama must be able to sue the state over the delay, the U.S. Supreme

Cisha Smith has waited for nearly five years to get the full amount of unemployment money she applied for after taking mandatory quarantine from her job as a retirement home office worker during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Initial filings for unemployment benefits in Alabama dropped last week compared with the week prior, the U.S. Department of Labor said Thursday. New jobless claims, a proxy for layoffs, fell to 1,807 in the week ending February 15,