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 ...

Selina Smedley said she was expecting to have jobless aid through early September, a $300 weekly boost that has been helping her get by while her Dallas-area cleaning business remains far below ...

COLORADO, USA — The number of people being told to pay back their unemployment benefits could get a lot higher as a second group of claimants is asked to provide certain documents by Dec. 21, or risk ...

CINCINNATI — Four people are facing charges, including a former Ohio Department of Job & Family Services employee, for allegedly defrauding the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) program, ...

An audit released on June 16 of the Illinois Department of Employment Security found that half of federal Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) benefits the agency paid out during the height of the ...

Three Columbus-area women, including a mother and daughter, are among 15 people who have been indicted by a grand jury in connection with a sprawling COVID-19 unemployment assistance scheme that ...

The U.S. government has completed agency review processes for three hard drive extractions in the Pandemic Unemployment ...

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 ...

District Court of Guam Magistrate Judge Michael Bordallo set a Sept. 22 trial for the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program fraud ring case involving seven defendants, among them close family membe ...

The New Hampshire lawsuit focuses on one federal pandemic program, Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, or PUA. New Hampshire joined a growing number of states where unemployed workers are filing ...