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With the floodgates set to open on another round of unemployment aid, states are being hammered with a new wave of fraud as they scramble to update security systems and block scammers who already have siphoned billions of dollars.
The fraud is fleecing taxpayers, delaying legitimate payments and turning thousands of Americans into unwitting identity theft victims.
✓State Employee and Retiree Health Care Savings – the administration has negotiated over $900 million in health care cost savings. ✓ Estimated $650 million in collectively- bargained cost savings with employees through FY23. ✓ An additional $260 million in savings achieved through negotiated insurance rates and contract terms with providers. —- Behind the fancy savings language, I’m reading more delayed payments for health providers to state employees and retirees. Possibly higher co-pays or increased insurance payments by employees / retirees. And expectations of clawbacks in th...
Facebook DOL issues final rule for H-2A certification program A final rule was recently issued that will update the H-2A certification program. The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announced the amendments. Post to Facebook DOL issues final rule for H-2A certification program A final rule was recently issued that will update the H-2A certification program. The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announced the amendments. Check out this story on FarmersAdvance.com: https://www.farmersadvance.com/story/news/2021/02/02/dol-issues-final-rule-h-2-a-certification-program/4353152001/ CancelSend
DOL's Final H-2A Rule and Citrus Shines Amid Pandemic Thursday Jan 21st, 2021 From the Ag Information Network, I’m Bob Larson with your Agribusiness Update. **In his final days at the USDA, Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue applauds the Department of Labor’s final rule modernizing the H-2A visa program that will streamline the H-2A application process by mandating electronic filing of job orders and applications. The changes are designed to bring the H-2A application process into the digital era, by harnessing the power of the FLAG electronic filing system to share information with fe...