The number of new claims remains high as the state probes thousands of fraudulent claims made with stolen personal information.
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Debate in Congress over $600 jobless payments heats up as claims rise
The number of people receiving the aid now tops 30 million – one in five workers.
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Fraud contributed to record 37,000 jobless claims, Maine officials say
Having 24,500 Mainers file claims – the other 12,500 are duplicates – is a ‘sharp and suspicious’ increase from recent trends, the state Labor Department said.
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Maine cancels 2,200 bogus unemployment claims, investigates payments to scammers
‘Organized criminals’ have taken advantage of a massive spike in unemployment payments to file claims with stolen personal information.
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Scammers target Maine’s stressed unemployment system
Criminals have used stolen personal information to file fraudulent jobless claims across the country as unemployment offices dole out historically large benefits.
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Maine’s biggest unemployment jump ever put jobless rate at nearly 11% in April
The state lost more than 98,000 jobs last month as the economic consequences of the coronavirus pandemic hit the state with full force.
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More than 138,000 Mainers have filed for unemployment since March
More than 11,500 Maine workers filed new jobless claims last week, even as the state begins reopening parts of its economy.
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State prison inmates were paid nearly $200,000 in unemployment benefits
The corrections department says 53 inmates were paid an average of $3,750 each after their work-release jobs were halted to reduce the risk of spreading the coronaviorus.
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Governor orders end to prisoners receiving unemployment pay
The inmates had applied for and received the benefits, including $600 weekly Pandemic Unemployment Assistance payments, after they were laid off from work-release jobs.
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Maine women and young adults hit hardest by unemployment
New unemployment claims data show a disproportionately high impact of the economic crisis on restaurant workers, millennials and women.