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Audit reveals LWC may have issued over 97,000 erroneous payments
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BATON ROUGE - State officials were recently tasked with identifying potentially erroneous payments issued by the Louisiana Workforce Commission, and an analysis revealed extensive errors.
A recent report from the Louisiana Legislative Auditor s Office shed light on what auditors found as they examined earnings reported to the LWC by employers from January 2020 through September 2020.
In their report, state officials explain that to qualify for unemployment insurance benefits during the pandemic, citizens with wages reported to LWC by employers were required to have meet several criteria.
President Joe Biden s $2.3 trillion infrastructure overhaul could funnel billions of dollars to a wide variety of Louisiana projects, ranging from capping thousands of abandoned oil and gas wells to funding road construction and helping with coastal restoration. This is the largest American job investment since World War II, Biden said in announcing the American Jobs Plan in Pittsburgh, Pa., Wednesday afternoon.
But the pre-Easter basket of goodies which is likely to face a difficult approval process in Congress also includes some rotten eggs needed to pay for the aggressive investment in U.S. roads, bridges and other infrastructure, state critics say: an end to federal tax breaks for the state s important fossil fuel sector and an overall increase in corporate tax rates.
“We have some of the best water in the world,” she said.
But for years, Marcelle, who is a Democrat, has warned of a looming crisis in the aquifer. Energy companies and big industry are drawing vast amounts of water. And the withdrawals are allowing salt water to move in, threatening the main source of drinking water for a growing population of more than half a million.
Marcelle has been a state legislator since 2016, and her first piece of legislation directly tackled the city’s imminent water crisis.
“Why not do what’s right for people?” she asked.
Her legislation died in committee. So she tried again the next year and the next and the next and the next.
The Louisiana Legislative Auditor s Office conducted an analysis of the state s Utilities Restoration Corporation and discovered a series of well-organized financial records.