PHOENIX — Arizona's unemployment system paid an estimated $4.4 billion in fraudulent unemployment claims funded through the federal CARES Act, a recent state audit found. The report, completed by the ...

The COVID-19 pandemic caused an enormous spike in unemployment insurance claims across the country. But the complexity and financial enticement of these programs attracted a high volume of fraud ...

WASHINGTON – A federal pandemic relief program that provided extra financial aid to jobless workers ended Monday, hitting more than 45,000 unemployed Arizonans who had already seen the state pull away ...

At the start of the pandemic, Sheri Calzadillas was working from home doing political survey calls, but the job ended and she was left with few other work options. Diagnosed with chronic obstructive ...

Arizona overpaid recipients of a federally-funded unemployment program $307 million more than they were entitled. And two-thirds of that was the fault of the state. Data provided to Capitol Media ...

On August 21, the US Department of Labor (DOL) released its long-awaited “improper payment report” on the troubled Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) program. PUA was an unpreceden t ed federal ...

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, ...