State Paying $1,200 Unemployed Residents! PUA Unemployment Fraud
Unemployment Update 11–25–20
Unemployment extension, PUA, UI, unemployment benefits, Unemployment update for Wednesday, November 25th, 2020. New Mexico unemployment $1,200 California unemployment fraud $1 billion.
I know we typically talk about the weekly jobs report from the Department of Labor on Thursdays, but due to Thanksgiving, we were presented with a bountiful feast of numbers a day earlier than normal.
This week’s report displays some bad, but not awful news for the economy, as the actual unemployment figures were higher than last week, and underperformed the estimates of those DOW Jones economists.
The weekly report showed that 778,000 Americans filed their first-time unemployment claims, which is up from the previous week’s 742,000 initial claims.
These numbers are also higher than the 733,000 initial claims predicted by economists and is the second week in a row with increasing first-time unemployment claims.
Hopefully, we can see a turnaround in rising initial claims soon, as I hate seeing these numbers rise for consecutive weeks.
Meanwhile, here’s yet another wacky unemployment tale from the great state of California.
We talked about the rapper bragging about unemployment fraud before, but this time, upwards of $1 billion have been involved in a scheme by tens of thousands of inmates across the Golden State.
According to Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert: “inmates in every California prison and in jails across the state filed 35,000 unemployment claims, with more than $140 million already been paid out.”
Schubert continued: “Quite frankly, the inmates are mocking us. It may well amount to upwards of a billion dollars having already been paid in their names.”
Due to the EDD not checking unemployment claims against a database of currently incarcerated Californians, the state could be holding the bill for hundreds of millions of dollars.
Schubert believes that this could be: “one of the biggest frauds of taxpayer dollars in California history.”
With so many issues and unique unemployment stories coming out of California, I just hope that all of my viewers out there in San Diego, LA, San Francisco or Sac-Town are getting the unemployment benefits you deserve and aren’t caught up in the bureaucracy.
Finally, lawmakers from the great state of New Mexico are seeking to approve a new stimulus bill that would offer eligible, unemployed residents another $1,200 check.
The funds will be going to: “state residents who lost their jobs because of the pandemic, including those whose unemployment benefits have run out.”
Best of all? These funds could be approved before Thanksgiving and hitting bank accounts before Christmas.
Mimi Stewart, who is nominated to become the top-ranking member of the Senate, explained: “We all thought that the federal government would get their act together and do a second CARES Act, but they haven’t. They don’t seem to be ready to do any of that. So, we have to step in.”
This is amazing news, congrats to everyone in New Mexico, and for everyone else, send a letter to your state’s politicians and let them know you want your state to do the same.
If you still haven’t applied for unemployment assistance, get your application in before the turkey makes you sleepy.
Check out your state’s PUA or UI website, upload your employment history and documents, and let them know that you’re currently out of work due to that thing out there.
For answering as truthfully as possible, you could be eligible to receive a backdated unemployment check for $10,000.
To all of the gig-workers, self-employed, independent contractors, 1099 workers, even side hustlers, volunteers and freelancers, you can claim unemployment benefits through the PUA.
But there’s not much time to waste, as these incredible government unemployment benefits expire before December 31st.
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