A former U.S. Department of Labor employee was charged with wire fraud for allegedly claiming over $40,000 in pandemic ...

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

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

About 4.2 million people on the PUA program will lose benefits after September 6, according to a new analysis from the Century Foundation, a left-leaning think tank.

“The Department [of Labor] has reported to the Office of Management Budget that the PUA program had a total improper payment rate of 35.9 percent,” the report said.

Therefore, it is likely that, during the program’s critical early months of operation, PUA improper payment rates were higher than the 35.9 percent average the report finds across the entire ...

The federally backed PUA program, along with a weekly enhancement of $300, expired on Sept. 5 after being extended at the end of 2020. Regular state unemployment payments range from $108 to $504 ...

Specifically, the audit states that ID theft overpayments under the PUA program totaled over $1.8 billion—or 50.4 percent of the $3.6 billion in PUA payments.

IDES data for the regular unemployment trust fund and PUA program combined showed that 3,448 people who were incarcerated received 92,811 payments totaling $40.5 million, while 10,527 payments ...

The report found that the biggest amount in overpayments, $4.6 billion, was tied to the PUA program, followed by regular unemployment and Extended Benefits programs, at $4.3 billion.

PUA caused a particularly bad backlog because it couldn't be run through the state's unemployment system, and each case had to be handled by an adjudicator. The expanded PUA program isn't the only ...

The PUA program expanded benefits to workers who traditionally aren’t eligible for unemployment but who have lost work as a direct result of the coronavirus pandemic, such as gig workers or ...