UNEMPLOYMENT

Three letter carriers have been charged for accepting bribes from a Farmington Hills man to help him steal credit cards from other people and intercept fraudulent COVID unemployment benefits he sent to homes along their routes, officials said.

A 28-year-old Farmington Hills man bribed letter carriers to obtain other people’s credit cards and later expanded his scheme to have those carriers intercept fraudulent COVID unemployment benefits he had filed for and sent to homes along their routes, officials said.

Two Detroit men and a Warren woman helped a former Michigan resident who is currently in prison operate a $2.2 million scheme that involved submitting 240 fraudulent COVID unemployment insurance claims, officials said.

More than 55,000 Michiganders will not have to pay back a total of $431 million in pandemic unemployment benefits that was improperly awarded to them, the state announced.

A Troy woman, who worked with Michigan’s Unemployment Insurance Agency, and a Detroit man have been charged for running a scheme to steal unemployment benefits, authorities said.

Michigan residents waiting for their tax forms from the Michigan Unemployment Agency can now get them online.

Michigan residents waiting for their tax forms from the Michigan Unemployment Agency can now get them online.

A Southfield woman has been charged for using other people’s identities to make more than 35 fraudulent unemployment claims, police said.

Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency (UIA) Director Julia Dale took over the position in October 2021.

She filed for unemployment as an independent contractor and soon the checks she needed arrived, but then late last year she received a notification from UIA telling her she owed the state $17,000. She was stunned.

The Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency (UIA) has been riddled with big problems since the start of the pandemic.

Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency (UIA) Director Julia Dale took over the position in October 2021.

Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency (UIA) Director Julia Dale took over the position in October 2021.

Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency (UIA) Director Julia Dale took over the position in October 2021.

The Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency (UIA) tells us fraud is on the rise.

I know so many of you have struggled to speak with a real person at the Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency.

Help Me Hank has been fighting for you since the beginning, fielding thousands of your unemployment complaints.

New data released Tuesday shows Michigan ranking among the worst states when it comes to unemployment recovery since the pandemic disrupted the workforce.

The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits rose to the highest level in three months as the fast-spreading omicron variant disrupted the job market.

Michigan’s new director of the unemployment office was questioned by lawmakers on Thursday.

Are you not receiving payments? Are you being billed for overpayments that you don’t think are correct? Something else?

The Unemployment Insurance Agency said they have flagged 10,000 recent claims for fraud. Why is there such a dramatic increase this time of year?

Michigan likely paid about $8.5 billion in fraudulent unemployment benefits over a 19-month period during the coronavirus pandemic, far more than previously estimated, according to a report released by the state.

Almost a third of unemployed Americans have been out of work at least six months, according to the November jobs report.

A Detroit man pleaded guilty to stealing unemployment benefits from nine different states, and he tried and failed to do so in eight others, federal officials said.

A big change is coming for people in Michigan filing for unemployment.

"Do I need to pull out my guns and go down there and shoot every [expletive] member of that unemployment agency?"

The battle over unemployment benefits continues for thousands of Michigan residents who said they’re still owed money from the system.

House Republicans say this is just the beginning. They’re currently drafting the wording of legislation they hope to introduce soon aimed at reforming the Unemployment Insurance Agency.

The expiration of the $300 weekly unemployment benefit boost impacts nearly 9 million people across the country.

“If we thought that people were going to be rushing to jobs because they saw their benefits about to expire, today’s jobs release numbers were not in accord with that,” Hershbein said.

Ann Arbor ranked fourth on SmartAsset's Best Places for Career Opportunities in 2021 list.

Federal officials have charged 14 people from Wayne and Macomb counties in connection with a fraud scheme to steal COVID unemployment benefits.

Michigan’s unemployment director was in Lansing on Tuesday as lawmakers demanded answers for everything that’s gone wrong with the system.

Job vacancies hit 953,000 while average pay rises 7.4%, official figures show.

Ann Arbor made CommercialCafe's 'Top 20 Most Underrated Cities in the Country' list.

About 350,000 Michigan residents who received federal unemployment aid will not have to repay benefits even though the state told them that some reasons for eligibility it approved at the start of the pandemic were not OK.

People collecting unemployment may be at risk of having their identity stolen.

More than 600,000 Michigan residents may not have had the unemployment eligibility they thought they did during the pandemic.

The state is investing millions of dollars into its Michigan Works! program in an effort to help unemployed residents find work.

Michigan is reopening 12 unemployment offices for in-person appointments.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer wants Michiganders who are returning to work after being laid off as well as new hires to be eligible for a $300 weekly bonus.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer proposed a $300 weekly back-to-work bonus as an incentive to get eligible workers back into the workforce.

Michigan residents who need to report work search activity by phone will have to follow a new certification schedule

Michigan residents who need to report work search activity by phone will have to follow a new certification schedule

Michigan residents who need to report work search activity by phone will have to follow a new certification schedule announced by the Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency starting June 7.

Businesses in Downtown Detroit are looking for help as things get back to normal.

New jobs and unemployment numbers show promise and a positive trend across the nation and in Michigan.

Michigan residents who are collecting unemployment need to watch out for a new scam.

Teenagers have become the most sought after employees to keep the labor force afloat during the COVID pandemic.

Michigan will reinstate a requirement that people receiving unemployment benefits show they are actively searching for work, effective May 30, but has no plan to end a $300 weekly federal supplement going to 816,000 jobless residents.

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