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2 recordsSeptember 19, 2026 – October 6, 2026All topics
  1. News1 receipt2 min

    Washington pandemic-fraud sentence separates $148,206 in benefits received from a PPP loan that never paid out

    Federal prosecutors say Tyler Lee Berens was sentenced October 5 to three years in prison after pleading guilty to fraud and identity-theft offenses. Their release reports $148,206 in pandemic unemployment benefits received and a separate $17,500 PPP loan approved but never disbursed. The sentence also covers a second scheme involving a deceased person’s assets; total restitution was $148,706.

    Also filed underjustice-departmentpandemic-reliefpppsentencing

  2. News2 receipts3 min

    From November 16, states must hand confidential unemployment records to federal officials on request for oversight and audits. Labor declined commenters' requests to bar immigration-enforcement use, to notify claimants, or to list which data is covered.

    A Labor Department final rule published September 16 and effective November 16, 2026 turns an optional disclosure into a required one: every state unemployment agency must give 'confidential UC information' to a federal official who asks for it for unemployment program oversight and audits. The Labor Department, its inspector general and GAO can ask without explanation; other federal officials must ask in writing, state the use and cite their authority. The department says it is fighting fraud, citing $45.6 billion in potentially fraudulent benefits identified by its inspector general. It did not list which data elements are covered, did not define 'Federal official', declined a proposed ban on immigration-enforcement use, and adds no notice to claimants. It says the rule creates no new uses and no national claims database, and that it does not reach eligibility decisions. States that must change their own laws have until September 16, 2027.

    Also filed underlabor-departmentprivacydata-sharingfederal-register

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