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 ...

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 ...

Attorney Louie Yanza, who represents Tina Sanchez, one of seven defendants charged in a Pandemic Unemployment Assistance fraud case, estimates he's only reviewed about 39% of discovery.

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 ...

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 ...