$46.7 Million Rental Assistance $300/ $400 Unemployment Extension Update

Here’s your unemployment update for Sunday, January 24th, 2021

More than half of the 1.4 million PUA benefits claims made in Ohio to date have been flagged as potentially fraudulent.

Lt. Governor Jon Husted, is warning Ohio residents to be on the lookout for identity thieves, many of whom use stolen information to apply for jobless benefits.

About 796,000 PUA claims in Ohio have been suspected as fraudulent, but only 44,000 or so of the 1.7 million filings for traditional unemployment benefits in the state have been flagged.

The state’s efforts to detect fraud have also been hindered by the Labor’s office’s ongoing work to update their 17-year-old computer system.

Scammers employ a variety of techniques to obtain people’s identities and exploit them to wrongly get unemployment benefits so the department is encouraging everyone to take steps to protect their identity.

Meanwhile, the Kansas Department of Labor said they have received guidance from the United States Department of Labor to begin paying out this weekend for those in the FPUC program.