Green Energy
MR, this one is going to piss you off royally!
From this source (hat tip to Randy's Roundtable):
- The Long Arm Of The Federal Government
There is something very creepy about this, and if you're targeted, you're screwed: Social Security, Treasury target taxpayers for their parents’ decades-old debts A few weeks ago, with no notice, the U.S. government intercepted Mary Grice’s...
- What Depression? Cnbc:most Of The Unemployed No Longer Receive Benefits
The jobs crisis has left so many people out of work for so long that most of America’s unemployed are no longer receiving unemployment benefits.Early last year, 75 percent were receiving checks. The figure is now 48 percent — a shift that points to...
- Myself And 45,000+ Other Pennsylvanians No Longer Unemployed As Of June 11, 2011
Federally Funded Extended Benefits Payments to End on June 11, 2011 Federal guidelines determine eligibility for extended unemployment benefits and, as a result of a drop in Pennsylvania's unemployment rate for the three-month period ending in April...
- I Can't Stand It Anymore
having more & more of Epa's Howard Beale moments lately. . . PLEASE TELL ME HOW THE FUCK THEY CAN SPIN IT AS AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE JOBLESS RATE WHEN A PARAGRAPH EARLIER THEY SAID IT WAS BECAUSE PEOPLE GAVE UP LOOKING FOR WORK! newsmax: Unemployment...
- Spain Pays Muslims To Go Back To Dar Al-islam
Paying immigrants to go home, from Redneck's Revenge: Mail Online - Spain will pay jobless immigrants to go home under new plans revealed. The measure was approved at a Cabinet meeting after a largely symbolic fast-track passage through Parliament....
Green Energy
Are You Kidding Me?
MR, this one is going to piss you off royally!
From this source (hat tip to Randy's Roundtable):
Government overpaid $14 billion in unemployment benefits
Don't spend that unemployment check too fast. The government might ask you to pay it back.
Overpayments are a rampant problem in the unemployment insurance system. The federal government and states overpaid an estimated $14 billion in benefits in fiscal 2011, or roughly 11% of all the jobless benefits paid out, according to reports from the U.S. Labor Department.
Of the states, Indiana was the worst offender, making more improper payments than it did correct ones.
Now, the U.S. Department of Labor and the states are in the midst of a massive effort to try to recoup some of their lost funds and avoid future overpayments.
Where does the money go?
The vast majority of unemployment benefits do go to people in need. In 2010 alone they helped keep 3.2 million Americans out of poverty, according to the Census Bureau.
But of the overpaid funds, most end up in the hands of three types of people: Those who aren't actively searching for a job, those who were fired or quit voluntarily, and those who continue to file claims even though they've returned to work. Any of those circumstances would make a person ineligible for benefits.
The overpayment typically results from an administrative error made either by the government, the employer, the worker or a combination of the three.
In much rarer situations, people deliberately defraud the system, using fake documents or identities. Common scams involve prison inmates, illegal immigrants or even the deceased....
- The Long Arm Of The Federal Government
There is something very creepy about this, and if you're targeted, you're screwed: Social Security, Treasury target taxpayers for their parents’ decades-old debts A few weeks ago, with no notice, the U.S. government intercepted Mary Grice’s...
- What Depression? Cnbc:most Of The Unemployed No Longer Receive Benefits
The jobs crisis has left so many people out of work for so long that most of America’s unemployed are no longer receiving unemployment benefits.Early last year, 75 percent were receiving checks. The figure is now 48 percent — a shift that points to...
- Myself And 45,000+ Other Pennsylvanians No Longer Unemployed As Of June 11, 2011
Federally Funded Extended Benefits Payments to End on June 11, 2011 Federal guidelines determine eligibility for extended unemployment benefits and, as a result of a drop in Pennsylvania's unemployment rate for the three-month period ending in April...
- I Can't Stand It Anymore
having more & more of Epa's Howard Beale moments lately. . . PLEASE TELL ME HOW THE FUCK THEY CAN SPIN IT AS AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE JOBLESS RATE WHEN A PARAGRAPH EARLIER THEY SAID IT WAS BECAUSE PEOPLE GAVE UP LOOKING FOR WORK! newsmax: Unemployment...
- Spain Pays Muslims To Go Back To Dar Al-islam
Paying immigrants to go home, from Redneck's Revenge: Mail Online - Spain will pay jobless immigrants to go home under new plans revealed. The measure was approved at a Cabinet meeting after a largely symbolic fast-track passage through Parliament....