Unemployment

SACRAMENTO, (AP) — A Northern California woman who acknowledged using U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s name and Social Security number to receive $21,000 in pandemic-related assistance pleaded guilty Monday to stealing unemployment benefits. It was part of nearly $200,000 in unemployment insurance and Pandemic Unemployment Assistance benefits contained in debit cards shipped to the home of Andrea M. Gervais, 44, of Roseville, authorities said. READ MORE: Person Suspected Of Shooting At Roseville Police Officer After Attempted Traffic Stop Gervais at a Bank of America ATM in Roseville. (credit: U.S. Attorney’s Office) She pleaded guilty to theft of government money for filing 97 such fraudulent claims, at least 10 of which were approved by California’s beleaguered Employment Development Department. If all 97 had been approved it could have brought her more than $2 million, federal prosecutors said. Investigators say overall losses from the widespread fraud will top at least … [Read more...] about Roseville Woman Admits To Unemployment Benefit Fraud

Former President George W. Bush says the United States needs more foreign workers to take American jobs, even as nearly 17 million Americans are unemployed. During an interview with the Today morning show, Bush said President Joe Biden’s administration ought to increase legal immigration levels to fill American jobs with more foreign workers as the U.S.-Mexico border is overwhelmed with skyrocketing illegal immigration. “We need to change the work visas,” Bush said. “There are a lot of jobs that are empty and there are a lot of jobs that need to be filled. And yet there are people willing to work hard to do so … a combination of those two would help alleviate some of the border.” Already, the U.S. annually admits about 1.2 million legal immigrants on green cards to permanently resettle in the country. In addition, another 1.4 million foreign workers are admitted every year on visas to take American jobs. Despite Bush’s claims, research has continuously debunked business … [Read more...] about George W. Bush Says U.S. Needs More Foreign Workers to Take Jobs as 16.6M Americans Unemployed

A Geico data breach that lasted over a month earlier this year exposed customers’ driver’s license numbers to hackers, according to a notice filed with California’s attorney general earlier this month. The filing , first obtained and reported by online newspaper TechCrunch on Monday , included a message sent to an unspecified number of Geico customers, stating that “ between January 21, 2021 and March 1, 2021, fraudsters used information about you — which they acquired elsewhere — to obtain unauthorized access to your driver’s license number through the online sales system on our website.” “We have reason to believe that this information could be used to fraudulently apply for unemployment benefits in your name,” added Geico, the second-largest auto insurer in the country. ADVERTISEMENT The notice stated that Geico “has secured the affected website and worked to identify the root cause of the incident.” “While we regularly maintain high security and privacy … [Read more...] about Geico customers’ driver’s license numbers exposed in breach

President Joe Biden’s administration is giving businesses 22,000 more foreign H-2B visa workers to hire for working class jobs, even as nearly 17 million Americans remain jobless. In an announcement on Tuesday, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said he has approved 22,000 foreign H-2B visa workers for businesses to hire to take non-agricultural jobs in the United States. About 6,000 of the H-2B visas will go to nationals in Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala. Businesses will be allowed to hire foreign H-2B visa workers who are already in the U.S. “During recent engagement with American businesses that rely on the H-2B program during the summer months, employers expressed an immediate need for supplemental, temporary guest workers for this fiscal year,” a DHS news release reads. Despite the claims of labor shortages, about 16.6 million Americans remain jobless today. Of the roughly 9.7 million Americans classified as unemployed, 13 percent … [Read more...] about Biden’s DHS Giving Business 22K More Foreign Workers as 16.6M Americans are Jobless

LONDON (AP) – The number of workers on U.K. corporate payrolls dropped by 0.2% in March as young people were hardest hit by coronavirus restrictions that closed bars, restaurants and hotels, according to the latest government statistics. Company payrolls fell by 56,000 last month, pushing the decline since March of last year to 813,000, the Office for National Statistics said Tuesday. Workers under 25 accounted for more than half the decline, with the number of young people on company payrolls dropping by 436,000 over the past year. Payrolls in the accommodation and food service industries, which employ large numbers of young people, fell by 355,000 workers. Despite the drop in payroll figures, the unemployment rate for the three months through February fell to 4.9%, a decline of 0.1% from the November-January period. The figures don´t include furloughed employees, who continue to receive a portion of their wages under a government program designed to preserve jobs during the … [Read more...] about 400K Fewer Young People Employed in Britain Since the Lockdowns Began