unemployment insurance

Executive Order 2021-08 removes all UI benefit claims between March 13 and December 31, 2020 from the business whose accounts were charged for those claims.

The agency has recorded 25 fraud convictions since 2016, resulting in more than $247,000 ordered in restitution.

A Casper man who falsified wage reports to obtain unemployment benefits by fraud was ordered to pay restitution, serve probation and perform 50 hours of community service.

Joan Evans Director of the Wyoming Department of Workforce Services, says DWS cross matches unemployment benefit claims with employer wage reports regularly to identify potential overpayments.

Casper and other Wyoming municipalities are seeing unemployment insurance costs shooting up. That's what's behind a Casper City Council resolution on Tuesday's City Council meeting agenda urging the Wyoming Association of Municipalities to support a review of laws that should be preventing anyone who voluntarily resigns, retires or is discharged for cause, from collecting unemployment...