DENVER – The Colorado Department of Labor and Employment said Thursday that around 48,000 federal Pandemic Unemployment Assistance claims for self-employed workers filed between mid-July and late ...

An investigation has revealed a significant unemployment fraud scheme involving former Ohio Department of Job and Family ...

A former employee of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services has been indicted for fraud, theft, and bribery due to their illicit handling of the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance funds. In 2020 ...

With more than 1 million pages of documents and several terabytes of data still needed to be fully reviewed, and some are ...

CINCINNATI — Four people are facing charges, including a former Ohio Department of Job & Family Services employee, for allegedly defrauding the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) program, ...

As America prepares to celebrate Labor Day, it’s timely to wonder what the US Department of Labor (DOL) has been up to. One noteworthy recent action was DOL’s August 21 release of a report on improper ...

(WKBN) – A woman who was convicted in a COVID-era unemployment scheme through her employment with the state was sentenced this week. Alana Hamilton was sentenced to four years and 11 months in prison ...

DENVER – More than 40,000 self-employed or gig worker Coloradans filed initial unemployment claims for Federal Pandemic Unemployment Assistance last week in the first week it was available – on top of ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - The Ohio Inspector General announced Monday that a contract employee improperly cleared several Pandemic Unemployment Assistance claims, including two that belonged to her relatives, ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Illinois overpaid unemployment benefits to the tune of $5.2 billion during the first 18 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, with much of it paid to fraudulent claimants, according to ...

Applications will open Friday for unemployed people in North Carolina who don’t qualify for state benefits but might be able to receive federal jobless benefits. It’s what many self-employed people ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. SPRINGFIELD — Illinois overpaid unemployment benefits to ...