Group Looking For Legislative Help On Unemployment Fraud

The South Dakota Unemployment Insurance Advisory Council will ask the legislature to impose more severe penalties on those that abuse the unemployment system.  State Labor and Regulation Department Secretary Pam Roberts says some of that is coming from federal rules…

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 Roberts says the recommendation is to go past the federal guidelines…

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Roberts says the penalty is not aimed at someone who may make a mistake on their unemployment application…

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Roberts says they will ask the 2013 legislature to change the laws on unemployment fraud.

(courtesy WNAX Yankton)