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Pandemic Emptied Unemployment Trust, Left Fraud Unchecked -
By Morgan Lee Associated Press
New Mexico probably overpaid unemployment insurance benefits by an estimated $250 million during the coronavirus pandemic amid a backlog of investigations into potentially fraudulent claims, the budget and accountability office of the Legislature announced Wednesday in a research report.
Analysts briefed members of the Legislature s lead budget writing committee on the trajectory of record-setting unemployment claims during pandemic.
New Mexico has paid out more than $3 billion in unemployment claims through the state s Workforce Solutions Department since the local outset of the pandemic in March 2020. That put the state unemployment trust fund into insolvency and in debt to the federal government.
NMiF talks with N.M. Sen. Ben Ray Lujan
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This week on New Mexico in Focus, Sen. Ben Ray Lujan joins the program from Washington, D.C. to talk about the federal government’s plans to pay for and expand access to broadband internet service. It’s been a major challenge in New Mexico. Correspondent and Axios reporter Russ Contreras also speaks with the senator about the immigration crisis at the southern border.
In March, the pueblos of Jemez and Laguna sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over a 2020 rule that weakens or eliminates protections for ephemeral or intermittent waterways. The pueblos are represented by the University of New Mexico Clinical Law Program, and according to the complaint, the Trump-era rule “ignores the U.S. Government’s trust responsibilities to Indian tribes and violates the Administrative Procedure Act and inten
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. The University of New Mexico men’s golf team remained in contention throughout the 2021 NCAA Albuquerque Regional, but fell just short of the top five on Wednesday, completing the Lobos’ season.
New Mexico completed the regional tied for seventh place (856, -8), just four strokes behind fifth-place San Diego (-12).
Freshman Bastien Amat, who was leading the field for the majority of the final round, finished tied for fourth (207, -9) to just miss advancing to nationals.
Amat, who posted a career-best score of 66 on Tuesday, posted his highest score of the tournament, 71 (-1), on Wednesday. He started on hole 10 and completed the back nine -3 following four birdies and a bogey. He went into the front nine leading the tournament, but suffered a trio of tough holes (#2, #3, #4), including a pair of bogeys and a double bogey, to end up even with just one hole left.
When Carlette Duffy had her Indianapolis home appraised as part of a refinance application last year, it kept getting valued much lower than she expected.