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Fraud Issues Still Plague PA’s Unemployment System, Frustrating Legitimate Claimants

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Pennsylvania’s Department of Labor and Industry is still dealing with unemployment-related fraud problems. That’s both criminals attempting to steal unemployment benefits and legitimate claimants who are being told their claims are fraudulent. WESA’s Kate Giammarise has more.

Read the full story at: https://www.wesa.fm/politics-government/2022-01-20/unemployment-fraud-problems-continue-for-state-laid-off-claimants-in-pennsylvania

(Original air-date: 1/21/22)

Kate Giammarise focuses her reporting on poverty, social services and affordable housing. Before joining WESA, she covered those topics for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for nearly five years; prior to that, she spent several years in the paper’s Harrisburg bureau covering the legislature, governor and state government. She was part of the P-G staff that won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting on the mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh.