Unemployment insurance is part of the social safety net that is paid to the State. Among many other issues with tying this to the employer (much like with healt

Unemployment insurance is part of the social safety net that is paid to the State. Among many other issues with tying this to the employer (much like with healthcare), the employer may not even exist anymore but the former employee is still entitled to unemployment. States that weren’t doing it from the beginning did start checking with employers to determine if a person was actually unemployed.