On August 21, the US Department of Labor (DOL) released its long-awaited “improper payment report” on the troubled Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) program. PUA was an unpreceden t ed federal ...

Since the start of the pandemic, mass unemployment has rocked the nation. To help mitigate the damage, two economic stimulus packages allotted unprecedented sums of money to create new benefits ...

The Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) program is one of three federally funded programs introduced by the CARES Act. This program has a very specific aim: providing emergency unemployment ...

A new report (“Examining Widespread Fraud in Pandemic Unemployment Relief Programs”) authored by the majority staff of the US House Committee on Oversight and Accountability spotlights the massive ...

COLUMBUS — Two former Ohio Department of Job and Family Services' intermittent employees are accused of recruiting a document forger to obtain over $300,000 in public unemployment assistance funds.

A probe by the Ohio Inspector General found that a temporary Ohio Department of Jobs and Family Services employee fraudulently released more than half a million dollars in pandemic-related ...

CHICAGO (CBS) – Illinois taxpayers are on the hook for improperly-paid unemployment benefits to the tune of $28 billion. The Inspector General testified in Washington on Wednesday that of the $888 ...