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THE INVESTIGATORS: LWC paid $6 2M in unemployment funds to prisoners, audit shows

THE INVESTIGATORS: LWC paid $6.2M in unemployment funds to prisoners, audit shows Audit reveals that millions of dollars were sent to inmates By Scottie Hunter | May 3, 2021 at 4:31 AM CDT - Updated May 3 at 12:30 PM BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - An audit conducted by the Louisiana Legislative Auditor’s Office reveals the Louisiana Workforce Commission (LWC) paid millions of dollars in unemployment funds to prisoners. The audit, released Monday shows the agency responsible for handling unemployment funds gave out more than $6 million in benefits to 1,195 incarcerated individuals who did not qualify for the program. Those improper payments were made between January to November 2020. According to the findings, 92 inmates received only one week of benefits but more than a thousand inmates received more than one week of benefits. In response to the audit’s findings, LWC Secretary Ava Cates sent a letter to the temporary legislative auditor, acknowledging the improper paym

Louisiana Workforce Commission paid unemployment benefits to prisoners during the pandemic

Baton Rouge / louisianaradionetwork.com May 3, 2021 11:58 AM A state audit finds the Louisiana Workforce Commission paid out six-point-two million dollars in unemployment benefits to nearly 12-hundred prisoners. Data Analytics Manager for the Louisiana Legislative Auditor’s Office, Chris Magee, says it’s a conservative number since they only looked at unemployment applications for the first half of 2020. “This really shows that there is an issue with this process but doesn’t fully capture the magnitude of the issue.” Magee says L-W-C has told them the problem is with a vendor that multiple states use that tracks incarceration data… “According to LWC and the vendor basically the data match was not working as intended during the Covid-19 pandemic.”

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