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Pandemic Response Accountability Committee
Key Insights: State Pandemic Unemployment Insurance Programs
This insights report provides a contextual understanding of the cross-cutting challenges states faced within their unemployment insurance (UI) programs and highlights the substantial work that has been done by State Auditors to ensure their states’ UI programs are functioning effectively. This report examines four common insights across 16 State Auditor Offices: (1) UI workloads surged for states; (2) the claims surge exploited internal control weaknesses; (3) uncommon and varying fraud schemes began to occur as the amount of federal funding expanded; and (4) state workforce agencies...
Department of Labor OIG
Performance Audit of the Mixed Earners Unemployment Compensation (MEUC) program under the Continued Assistance for Unemployed Workers Act (Continued Assistance Act) and the America Rescue Plan Act (ARPA)
DOL and states found themselves unprepared for the overwhelming circumstances surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic and struggled to implement CARES Act UI Programs and Continue Assistance Act which added the Mixed Earners Unemployment Compensation (MEUC) program. MEUC is a new temporary, federal program that provides an extra unemployment income to self-employed individuals. As unprecedented levels of unemployment resulted in millions of jobless Americans applying for unemployment benefits during the pandemic this also led to states reporting an inability to process claims, complete required reporting, or perform required overpayment detection procedures due to an inability to hire sufficient levels of staffing. The objective of this audit is to determine how states implemented the MEUC program.
Department of Labor OIG
COVID 19: Audit of States' Use of Staffing to Support Implementation of CARES Act UI Programs
Department of Labor OIG
COVID 19: Audit of Emergency Unemployment Relief for Government Entities and Non-Profit Organizations Program (EURGENO)
Department of the Treasury OIG
Desk Review of Puerto Rico
The objective of this desk review is to evaluate Puerto Rico's documentation supporting the uses of its Coronavirus Relief Fund (CRF) proceeds as reported in GrantSolutions and to assess risk of unallowable use of funds. The scope of our review will include obligation and expenditure data for the period of March 1, 2020 through June 30, 2021.
Department of Labor OIG