State Rep. Dexter Sharper pleaded guilty in federal court on Wednesday to lying to the government to receive unemployment benefits during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The amount of fraud has dropped sharply since the pandemic, but California still faced financial liabilities from the unemployment surge.

Republican Oklahoma Sen. James Lankford is introducing a bill Thursday aimed at eradicating fraud from unemployment programs, ...

Court records show that, between 2002 and 2024, he reportedly held jobs with more than 20 employers and earned income totaling more than $580,000.

Two Georgia men have been sentenced for participating in a scheme to defraud the Georgia Department of Labor (GaDOL) of tens of millions of dollars in benefits intended to help unemployed individuals ...

Nevada’s employment agency is rolling out a Google-run artificial intelligence tool to process appeals on unemployment benefit decisions, a development the agency said would rapidly speed up the ...

The U.S. Labor Department deployed a specialized "strike team" to California over alleged unemployment fraud and $21 billion ...

Megan Caudill, 39, of Swords Creek, Va., was sentenced to 30 days in prison and three years of supervised release, including ...

Federal officials are subjecting some states to higher scrutiny in an antifraud campaign, as the president rails against California and states led by Democrats. By Tony Romm Reporting from Washington ...

The State of Maryland processed nearly two million unemployment claims during the COVID-19 pandemic. A large number of those claims were fraudulent, with the full extent of the fraud yet to be ...

A Maryland woman says she got a letter telling her she received unemployment and was overpaid, but there was a problem: She never applied for the benefits. Now, she’s concerned about identity theft ...

Gov. Tony Evers has written to the White House, demanding that President Donald Trump release $29 million Wisconsin was ...