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The state’s largest city is embarking on its guaranteed income experiment.
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka took to the steps of city hall yesterday to promote the new pilot program. A select group of residents will receive $6,000 per year for two years, no strings attached.
Hindu temple in N.J. accused of exploiting workers it lured from India, lawsuit alleges
Updated May 12, 2021;
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A lawsuit filed in federal court Tuesday alleges the builders of a New Jersey Hindu temple considered to be one the largest in the United States lured workers from India, worked them nearly 90 hours per week and paid them around $1.20 per hour.
One worker, the lawsuit claims, died from forced labor.
The allegations were made against Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha, a Hindu sect known as BAPS, and the leaders who run the Robbinsville temple and its construction. The temple opened in 2014 and is constructed entirely of Italian marble that was sculpted in India and completed on site off Route 130 in Robbinsville.
Under the federal stimulus American Rescue Plan that President Joe Biden signed in March, workers receiving unemployment also can collect a $300 weekly payment under the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation program.
This is not the first time the $300 supplemental benefit was delayed. Claimants saw a similar issue at the end of March.
Other workers continue to receive error messages when trying to claim their weekly benefits, due to an issue that cropped up for those who hit a 14th week of extended benefits, a category of jobless benefits that offer New Jerseyans additional weeks of their unemployment payments.
Since the beginning of the pandemic last March, New Jersey has received more than 2.1 million applications for jobless benefits and given out close to $27.7 billion in unemployment payments.
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The Westfield police have responded to recent identity theft attempts. (Caren Lissner/Patch)
WESTFIELD, NJ Police have warned residents that identity scams and on-line fraud have ramped up amid the pandemic, and the latest list of police incidents in Westfield makes that clear.
The following identity and fraud reports were made to the Westfield police in late April:
A resident of Rahway Avenue reported on April 22 that an unknown person used his identity to file an unemployment claim with the New Jersey Department of Labor. He was alerted after receiving a notification from his current employer. He suffered no monetary loss as a result of this fraudulent claim.
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