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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Unemployment benefits typically go to people who were employed full-time, but from March 2020 to September 2021, they were expanded to include independent contractors, self-employed workers, and ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WDTN) – Approximately 5,000 people are now eligible for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance after the Department of Labor updated its list of eligibility scenarios. The federal PUA ...

DAUPHIN COUNTY, Pa. — Three Dauphin County residents have been charged with committing pandemic unemployment assistance fraud by the Office of the Pennsylvania Attorney General. The suspects ...

More evidence in the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance fraud case was handed over to defendants, according to a status report filed in District Court of Guam. Assistant U.S. Attorney Benjamin ...

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 ...

Some unemployed Americans have been underpaid under a federal COVID-19 relief program, a watchdog found. The U.S. Government Accountability Office — a nonpartisan, independent agency that works for ...

U.S. Sens. Mark Warner (D-VA) and Tina Smith (D-MN) have introduced legislation to help ensure Americans who earn a living through a mix of traditional and independent employment income can fully ...

MADISON – A federal watchdog agency is urging Wisconsin to look into racial disparities in how a pandemic-era unemployment program was paid out, after it showed that white claimants got paid out at ...