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| Aug 1, 2026 | Four H-1B Employers Banned: DOL Willful Violator List Expands as Fraud Probe Deepens | By Kyle Belmonte
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| Jul 1, 2026 | Chair Walberg-Requested IG Investigation Finds Biden-Harris DOL Failed to Safeguard Confidential Information | An Inspector General investigation requested by Education and Workforce Committee Chairman Tim Walberg (R-MI) found the Biden-Harris Department of Labor (DOL) failed to protect confidential investigative information after reports the Depart... |
| Jul 23, 2025 | Widening Divide: Employers and Union-Busters Skirt Reporting Rules While Unions Comply | One-Sided Transparency: The Growing Gap Between Required Annual Union Versus Employer and Persuader Filings and OLMS Compliance Efforts Continues to Widen
the law is once again applied in a way that lets corporations and union-busters off t... |
| Apr 15, 2025 | DOGE trumpets unemployment fraud that the government already found years ago | Chavez-DeRemer’s recounting of the alleged fraud, including claims of benefits filed by unborn children, drew laughter in the Cabinet room and a reaction from Trump himself.
“Those numbers are really bad,” he said.
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| Feb 8, 2023 | Watchdogs say federal unemployment fraud likely topped $191 billion | (The Center Square) – Slightly more than $1 out of every $5 distributed in unemployment insurance payments during the pandemic could have been improper, mostly fraud.
Larry Turner, the inspector general for the U.S. Department of Labor, sai... |
| Dec 20, 2022 | The age of the work-from-home whistleblower | When Simon Edelman blew the whistle on his former employer, the US Department of Energy, he couldn't have known that his act of defiance was at the forefront of a growing national trend.
In 2017, Edelman was a photographer for the DOE. As t... |
| Jun 18, 2021 | Facial Recognition Failures Are Locking People Out of Unemployment Systems | People around the country are furious after being denied their unemployment benefits due to apparent problems with facial recognition technology that claims to prevent fraud.
Unemployment recipients have been complaining for months about th... |
| Jun 7, 2021 | $39 billion of stimulus unemployment benefits were likely wasted by inefficient state governments, watchdog finds | Carlos Ponce joins a protest in in Miami Springs, Florida, asking senators to continue unemployment benefits past July 31, 2020. Joe Raedle/Getty Images
The Office of the Inspector General estimated $39 billion in unemployment benefits from... |
| Nov 25, 2020 | Mark R Warner : Manchin, Brown, Casey, Kaine, Warner Urge Msha to Take Immediate Action to Protect Miners From Silica Exposure | WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-VA) joined Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Bob Casey (D-PA), and Tim Kaine (D-VA) urged the Mine Safety & Health Administration (MSHA) to take immediate action to protect miners f... |
| Aug 15, 2020 | Mine Safety Agency Should Do More to Protect Coal Miners in the Pandemic, Oversight Office Finds | The federal Mine Safety and Health Administration has not done enough to protect coal miners during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report from an oversight agency released Tuesday.
Through interviews with MSHA officials and union ... |
| Aug 5, 2020 | With a new coronavirus relief package underway, the government must implement proper screening | A Florida man was arrested last week for using his Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan to buy a Lamborghini, vacations in high-end Miami resorts and designer clothes. He falsified the number and salaries of his employees to receive $3.9 ... |
| Jun 9, 2020 | After waiting weeks for unemployment checks, some Americans are now getting too much — like an Oregon man who mistakenly received 37 checks in a day | Unemployment overpayment is an issue in multiple states. OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images
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| Mar 17, 2017 | Wages rise on California farms. Americans still don’t want the job | Arnulfo Solorio’s desperate mission to recruit farmworkers for the Napa Valley took him far from the pastoral vineyards to a raggedy parking lot in Stockton, in the heart of the Central Valley.
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| Labor Department pumps $240 million into unemployment system to fight 'terrifying' fraud | The Labor Department is offering $240 million in grants to states to help fight ongoing attempts to steal unemployment benefits.
Fraud has been elevated since spring 2020, when federal lawmakers expanded unemployment benefits during the Cov... |
| How criminals siphoned off unemployment payments directly from recipients’ accounts | Unemployment payments were a lifeline to the millions of people who lost their jobs during the pandemic.
Scammers set their sights on the payments. Transaction fraud involves the theft of unemployment funds from recipients’ accounts.
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| Fraud had ‘significant’ role in $163 billion leak from pandemic-era unemployment system | More than $163 billion in pandemic-era unemployment benefits was likely issued in error, with a big chunk due to fraud, according to a U.S. Department of Labor report.
Congress raised weekly benefits and states contended with administrative... |
| Unemployment fraud may create a tax nightmare | Billions of dollars in unemployment benefits have been stolen due to fraud during the Covid pandemic.
Identity theft was among the most common unemployment scams, according to security experts. Victims will receive 1099-G federal tax forms ... |
| Kokua Line: How much was lost to unemployment fraud in Hawaii? | Question: Nationwide, about $163 billion of $872 billion in federal unemployment benefits were improperly paid, due to fraud and other reasons, according to news reports. The improper payment rate of nearly 19% shows the national picture. W... |
| $39 billion of stimulus unemployment benefits were likely wasted by inefficient state governments, watchdog finds | Carlos Ponce joins a protest in in Miami Springs, Florida, asking senators to continue unemployment benefits past July 31, 2020. Joe Raedle/Getty Images
The Office of the Inspector General estimated $39 billion in unemployment benefits from... |
| Scammers have taken $36 billion in fraudulent unemployment payments from American workers | The $900 billion Covid relief law signed in December adds measures to fight criminals trying to steal unemployment benefits.
The U.S. lost more than $36 billion in unemployment benefits to improper payments, largely from fraud, since the CA... |
| Millions of workers will have to submit new documents for pandemic unemployment benefits in 2021 | The $900 billion stimulus bill passed by Congress this week extends the CARES Act’s Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program by at least 11 weeks into March 2021. But it also adds a new verification process to curb fraud that could impact n... |
| More than $87 billion in federal benefits siphoned from unemployment system, says Labor Department | The federal government has issued $872 billion in pandemic unemployment benefits as of Sept. 30. At least 10% was likely paid improperly, largely due to fraud, according to a U.S. Department of Labor report released Monday.
Unprecedented fu... |