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DWD predicts jobless benefits taxes to remain steady in 2019
State officials are predicting that the current surplus in the state’s unemployment-benefits trust fund will help keep payroll taxes low for employers.
Migrant workers tripped up by new work-search rules, slapped with fraud
For nearly two decades, Sanjuana Maltos would travel to Wisconsin from her home in Texas to work from June to November for the state’s cannery companies.
New changes could be coming to jobless benefits laws
The state's Department of Workforce Development is proposing several changes to the state’s unemployment-benefits laws.
Justices to hear oral arguments in first substantial-fault proceedings
Are mere mistakes made on the job enough to deny someone unemployment benefits after they’ve been let go? Or should people be able to receive benefits as long as their firing wasn’t the result of deliberate misdeeds?
Court rules errors don’t preclude unemployment benefits (UPDATE)
Employees cannot be denied unemployment benefits in Wisconsin for inadvertent errors, even if the worker has been repeatedly warned about such errors, a state appeals court ruled Thursday.
Bill to increase criminal penalties for benefits fraud advances
A state Assembly panel gave its blessing Tuesday to a proposal that would increase the criminal penalties for fraudulently obtaining unemployment benefits.
Lawmakers considering tougher penalties for benefits fraud
Lawmakers on Thursday will consider a proposal that would place steeper criminal penalties on those who defraud the state's unemployment-benefits system.
State looks to up budget in fight against benefits fraud
State officials want to raise more money to fight unemployment benefits fraud and plan to do so without increasing employers' taxes.
DOJ unemployment fraud referrals rise in 2015
Wisconsin labor officials referred 36 unemployment fraud cases to the state Department of Justice during the past year, up from six cases in 2014.
Proposed statute change could make it easier for DWD to find benefit fraud
A proposed change to the state’s unemployment insurance statutes could make it easier for jobless benefit claimants to be charged with fraud.
Agency alleges unemployment law changes would increase court system costs
The independent body that reviews administrative law decisions has slammed the state Department of Workforce Development over proposed changes to circuit court reviews of unemployment benefit decisions.
Battle rages over unemployment benefits
An independent body that reviews unemployment-payment rulings has again taken state officials to task over charging claimants with defrauding Wisconsin's benefits program.
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