The nation's 59 million self-employed workers got a lifeline last year when lawmakers created the first-ever program that extended jobless benefits to this growing group of workers. But that program, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Attorney Louie Yanza, who represents Tina Sanchez, one of seven defendants charged in a Pandemic Unemployment Assistance fraud case, estimates he's only reviewed about 39% of discovery.

With more than 1 million pages of documents and several terabytes of data still needed to be fully reviewed, and some are still with the FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the trial of seven ...

An audit released on June 16 of the Illinois Department of Employment Security found that half of federal Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) benefits the agency paid out during the height of the ...

COLORADO, USA — The number of people being told to pay back their unemployment benefits could get a lot higher as a second group of claimants is asked to provide certain documents by Dec. 21, or risk ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about state and local government taxes and spending. Sep 09, 2021, 10:39am EDT Sep 09, 2021, 11:10am EDT This article is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The state’s unemployment agency potentially overpaid an estimated $55 billion in recent years to people who may not have been ...

Three Columbus-area women, including a mother and daughter, are among 15 people who have been indicted by a grand jury in connection with a sprawling COVID-19 unemployment assistance scheme that ...

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, ...