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TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. While many jobless Pennsylvanians have struggled to get unemployment benefits during the covid pandemic, the state has paid out at least $2.5 million in fraudulent claims, state officials said Tuesday. That might be just the tip of the iceberg, the officials said. The $2.5 million was siphoned off by just 29 people arrested in August for their alleged involvement in six criminal rings, said officials from the state Attorney General’s office and Department of Labor & Industr...

TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. Seven months of frustration trying to get the state to release thousands of dollars in unemployment benefits from last year ended for a Southwest Greensburg man this past weekend when he got a long-awaited check from the Labor Department. “I won’t have to worry so much,” Scott Flanigan, 58, said Monday about receiving the federal Pandemic Unemployment Assistance benefits he had been fighting for since last spring. Flanigan, a self-employed beautician, said he got a few...

Frustration sets in for those awaiting stimulus benefits in Lehigh Valley, elsewhere in Pa. Updated Jan 20, 2021; First, Pennsylvania residents couldn’t get through to Pennsylvania’s Pandemic Unemployment Assistance by phone or email. Now, the state is struggling to pay the hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvanians anxiously awaiting their extended benefits. Residents in the Lehigh Valley and elsewhere in Pennsylvania say the delay is jeopardizing their ability to stay afloat. They’re looking for answers. One looming question: Is there even a timeline for when residents will receive the ...