Woman indicted for fraud, theft, bribery after releasing $800K in unemployment funds
WHIO via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoA former employee of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services has been indicted for their...
More workers sue states canceling unemployment benefits — some are successful
Yahoo Money· 2 years agoWorkers in Indiana, Maryland, Ohio, and Texas have sued their states for canceling pandemic-era...
Ohio Job and Family Services employee cut off relative's unemployment benefits after fight
The Columbus Dispatch via Yahoo News· 1 year agoODJFS customer service representative Quenise Barnes improperly accessed a relative's pandemic unemployment assistance 10 times in May and eventually cut off that person's benefits. On June ...
Ohio unemployment overpayments top $2B
Tribune Publishing via Yahoo News· 2 years agoMay 18—Ohio has overpaid roughly $2.1 billion in unemployment compensation since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, Ohio Department of Job and Family Services Interim Director Matt Damschroder ...
Top Democrats are calling on President Biden to permanently reform unemployment and beef up benefits
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 2 years agoTop Democrats, including Bernie Sanders, are calling on Biden to permanently reform unemployment. A...
Unemployment: Workers in more states sue governors over early end to benefits
Yahoo Money· 2 years agoUnemployed workers in Louisiana and South Carolina joined a growing movement challenging governors...
Unemployment: Florida workers lose reinstatement of jobless benefits as federal expiration looms
Yahoo Money· 2 years agoA Florida judge denied a motion to temporarily reinstate the extra $300 in weekly unemployment...
3.8 million could see their unemployment benefits end
CBS News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoMore than 3.8 million Americans could lose at least some — and in many cases all — of their federal...
States canceling extra unemployment benefits will cost local economies $12.3 billion
Yahoo Money· 2 years agoHalf of the states planning to cancel the extra $300 in weekly unemployment benefits this month...
Preliminary findings issued on Ohio's struggling unemployment system
The Blade, Toledo, Ohio via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAug. 6—COLUMBUS — Ohio can't wait until times of crisis to seek improvements to its unemployment compensation system and should pursue a two-step verification system to deter the type of fraud ...