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Report File
Date Issued
Submitting OIG
Department of Labor OIG
Other Participating OIGs
Department of Labor OIG
Agencies Reviewed/Investigated
Department of Labor
Report Number
19-24-005-03-315
Report Type
Audit
Special Projects
Pandemic
Agency Wide
Yes
Number of Recommendations
4
Questioned Costs
$0
Funds for Better Use
$0
Additional Details
https://www.oig.dol.gov/cgi-bin/oa_rpts-v6.cgi?s=&y=2024&a=all

Open Recommendations

This report has 3 open recommendations.
Recommendation Number Significant Recommendation Recommended Questioned Costs Recommended Funds for Better Use Additional Details
2 Yes $0 $0

Collaborate with the Bureau of Labor Statistics to track and report data specific to mixed earners in the U.S. economy to allow for the provision of timely and useful assistance to the mixed earner population during future emergencies.

3 Yes $0 $0

Monitor the state workforce agencies’ levels of benefit payment activity and establish timeframes to reduce the remaining allotment to the sufficiently minimal amount required to meet future benefit payment needs and ensure the remaining Mixed Earners Unemployment Compensation funds are expended appropriately or returned to Treasury.

4 Yes $0 $0

Perform an assessment of previous emergency unemployment insurance (UI) programs and the pandemic-related UI programs to determine an appropriate historically-based time limit for states’ acceptance of emergency program benefit claims after the expiration of the UI programs’ eligibility periods and consider making a legislative proposal to Congress to use the determined the time limit on future emergency programs.

Department of Labor OIG

United States