Brandy and Markeya Smith, who are mother and daughter, are among 15 people indicted in fraud scheme to collect some $7M in ...

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 ...

Another problem–there’s no phone number for PUA assistance. The DLIR acting director Anne Perreira-Eustaquio said that’s one of the issues they are addressing.

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 ...

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

A PUA applicant, by definition self-employed, must present as both worker and employer, which doubles the process. Because this is a new program, there is very little cogent direction on the website.

A trio of suspects, along with a dozen co-conspirators, have been indicted in a pandemic unemployment assistance fraud scheme ...

At 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, the self-employed barber was in front of his computer waiting for the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) website to rollout as promised.

Any PUA claimant who needs assistance after receiving a fact-finding query, or for any other PUA matter, may call the DLIR call center. PUA claimants will no longer be able to submit questions ...