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The Inspector General of the US Department of Labor (DOL) on Wednesday issued an update about improper payments and fraud involving federal and state unemployment insurance (UI) benefits paid since the pandemic struck last March. ....
A senior California official overseeing the state’s Employment Development Department (EDD), which administers unemployment benefits, admitted yesterday that potentially 27 percent of benefits paid in the state since the coronavirus crisis began have been fraudulent: ....
Even though Congress extended federal unemployment benefits through mid-March just a few weeks ago (with a “soft phaseout” through mid-April), President Biden’s proposed $1.9 trillion “American Rescue Plan” already calls for continuing and expanding those ....
California Governor Gavin Newsom’s latest budget proposal released last week suggests, as one article summarized, the state is currently “swimming in money,” including “a $15 billion one-time surplus.” That’s a massive turnaround from early in ....
An Axios piece warned that recipients of unemployment insurance benefits may receive a smaller tax refund or owe taxes due to a “quirk” in the tax code that counts these benefits as taxable income. In ....
On Tuesday, the Los Angeles Times reported that California has paid millions of dollars in unemployment benefits to thousands of inmates in other states: In the latest revelation of potential criminal fraud involving California jobless ....
As my AEI colleague Jim Pethokoukis recently noted on Twitter, a major Wall Street economist thinks Congress’s massive relief legislation (which President Trump has since derided and is yet to sign) may be the last ....
With its 5593-page legislative text just released, news accounts suggest the coronavirus relief package expected to be considered by the House and Senate today will push total federal unemployment benefit payments in the 12 months ....
Earlier this month, a bipartisan group of senators and representatives released a broad $908 billion framework for extending coronavirus relief. That framework has become central to possible additional coronavirus relief legislation, which congressional leaders are discussing today ....
In the past few days, the US Department of Labor (DOL) has released updated unemployment data showing the economic recovery continued to deepen and spread across the country in October. That data also suggests that ....