State Unemployment System Struggling With Fraud, Overpayment

From WTAE.COM:

…”Our error rate is not that high. The error rate nationally is 11 percent. We’re right at that 11 percent, so we’re right in the middle,” said Pennsylvania Labor and Industry secretary Julia Hearthway.

But the U.S. Department of Labor said Pennsylvania is not in the middle when it comes to recovering unpaid unemployment benefits.

Only three other states — Arizona, Oregon and Louisiana — have worse ratings.

A federal report said Pennsylvania overpaid $374 million in unemployment benefits last year at the same time it was borrowing from the federal government…

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