Unemployment Benefits

State Auditor Keith Faber confirms the state overpaid nearly $3.8 billion in unemployment benefits.

The president and CEO of the Ohio Chamber of Commerce said he has a proposal to change the way unemployment benefits are paid.

Lawsuits over the discontinued $300 weekly checks continue, though the federal program financing them ended last month.

Ohioans who lost money when their unemployment accounts were taken over by scammers can start applying to get that money back on Friday.

Unemployment compensation has served as a lifeline for many who were out of work or lost jobs. We’ll look at the impact unemployment benefits have had on the economy and with so many jobs available will we see open positions being filled?

Ohio paid nearly $3.4 billion dollars in overpayments to people getting unemployment since March of 2020. And while the state is still counting up all the money that was overpaid, that total doesn’t include the paid claims that were fraudulent.

The fight to bring back the $300 weekly additional checks to unemployed Ohioans remains up in the air after an appeals court decided to send the case back to a Franklin County judge.

Three appeals court judges will decide whether unemployed Ohioans should get $300 in additional weekly checks – a benefit Gov. Mike DeWine ended last month, though the federal program runs through September 6.

Ohioans were accidentally given over $1.2 billion in accidental Pandemic Unemployment Assistance payments between May 2020 to February 2021. For Ohioans who received overpayments reaching a customer service representative and be an exhaustive process.

A Franklin County judge has ruled against reinstating $300 weekly pandemic unemployment checks for Ohioans out of work. Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine ended the additional federal assistance prematurely last month.