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Jan. 9— WILKES-BARRE— The Department of Labor and Industry has detected an escalation in fraudsters' attempts to steal unemployment compensation benefits through increasingly aggressive and sophisticated schemes. An examination is underway to determine the source of these attacks and the precise methods fraudsters are using to intercept legitimate UC...

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LEWISBURG — SEDA-COG recently announced it had given away $7.157 million in COVID-19 Hospitality Industry Recovery Program money in its area since the beginning of the program.

Credit Matt DiSanto / WPSU State officials traveled to State College Wednesday to highlight relief funding that aims to help businesses get back on their feet as the pandemic subsides. Pennsylvania’s COVID-19 Hospitality Industry Recovery Program (CHIRP) will distribute $1.8 million to 86 Centre County businesses this summer. The average grant is worth about $21,000. Nearly 110 businesses applied for grants over a three-month span this spring. To qualify for the funding, each needed to experience at least a 25% revenue loss throughout the pandemic. Steve D’Ettorre, deputy secretary of Pe...

The grants are coming from a pot of $145 million approved by the General Assembly.