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Michigan's Unemployment Insurance Agency agreed to pay $55 million in April and make changes to how it processes claims as part of a settlement it reached in a lawsuit filed by several workers who ...
The saga of a group of Michigan residents falsely accused of unemployment insurance fraud nearly a decade ago has finally come to a close. Four claimants seeking damages against the contractors ...
When fraud was identified by the agency's investigations unit, the agency undercalculated penalties by nearly 50% due to issues with its internal computer system, the auditor found.
As a part of the department's re-organization, two commissions were formed in the department, the Workers’ Disability Compensation Appeals Commission and the Unemployment Insurance Appeals Commission. The Michigan Strategic Fund's board was restructured. The formerly defunct State Lake Bank Fast Track Authority was re-formed. [6]
Jimmy Carter signs Medicare-Medicaid Anti-Fraud and Abuse Amendments into law. The Office of Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, as mandated by Public Law 95-452 (as amended), is established to protect the integrity of Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) programs, to include Medicare and Medicaid programs, as well as the health and welfare of the ...
Unemployment insurance is funded by both federal and state payroll taxes. In most states, employers pay state and federal unemployment taxes if: (1) they paid wages to employees totaling $1,500 or more in any quarter of a calendar year, or (2) they had at least one employee during any day of a week for 20 or more weeks in a calendar year, regardless of whether those weeks were consecutive.
As Michigan's UIA and other states were experiencing a historic influx of claims, state agencies also were setting up three additional federal unemployment insurance benefits systems, including PUA.
Health care fraud includes "snake oil" marketing, health insurance fraud, drug fraud, and medical fraud. Health insurance fraud occurs when a company or an individual defrauds an insurer or government health care program, such as Medicare (United States) or equivalent State programs. The manner in which this is done varies, and persons engaging ...