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As bills pile up for many jobless workers, state’s ‘dinosaur’ benefits system provides only frustration By Katie Johnston Globe Staff,Updated March 1, 2021, 6:15 p.m. Email to a Friend Marie Justice-Hughes, a pediatric nurse, waited for an Uber to arrive to take her to work. She got COVID and has been struggling to get back to full-time work and hasn't gotten her unemployment benefits for the past eight weeks.Suzanne Kreiter/Globe staff For many Massachusetts workers who lost their jobs during the pandemic, the stress of being laid off has been magnified by the Sisyphean effort...

Audit estimate: $600 million in fraudulent unemployment claims paid in Kansas Figures are double the estimates provided by Gov. Laura Kelly’s administration Share Updated: 6:45 PM CST Feb 24, 2021 Figures are double the estimates provided by Gov. Laura Kelly’s administration Share Updated: 6:45 PM CST Feb 24, 2021 Hide Transcript Show Transcript REPORTER: TONIGHT, MAJOR DISAGREEMENT, OVER HOW MUCH MONEY THE KANSAS DEPARTMENT OF LABOR HAS PAID TO SCAMMERS. >> ULTIMATELY WE ESTIMATED THAT ABOUT 600 MILLION IN UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS PAID IN KANSAS IN 2020 COULD HA...

Legislative audit pegs Kansas unemployment fraud at $600 million; KDOL says it's bunk Dion Lefler and Katie Bernard, The Wichita Eagle Feb. 24—Kansas Legislative auditors are estimating that fraudulent claims accounted for at least $600 million worth of unemployment payments since the COVID-19 pandemic started last year — twice the rate the state Department of Labor is acknowledging. Popular Searches "Of the roughly $2.6 billion in state and federal unemployment benefits paid in Kansas in 2020, we estimated about $600 million (24%) could have been fraudulent," said a repor...

The Kansas Department of Labor and the Legislature's auditing division are at odds over how much money has been paid out in fraudulent unemployment claims, with a new estimate released Wednesday saying that as much as $600 million in bogus payments were made last year. Initial findings from a report issued by the Division of Post Audit used KDOL figures that showed 157,000 claims had been flagged as potentially fraudulent, roughly 24% of the total claims filed in 2020. The analysis showed roughly $200 million for fraudulent claims came out of the state's regular unemployment program, with t...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Two brothers from Kansas and Idaho were arrested Friday on federal...