“In a smaller number of cases, they are the result of unintentional errors made by agency staff.”Ī higher error rate was expected for PUA payments because the U.S. “In most cases, the overpayments are the result of claimants not reporting or underreporting earnings during the week claimed,” said an ODJFS statement in response to the I-Team’s questions. This is the first time Ohio has revealed overpayment details on its PUA program, which is intended for independent contractors, the self-employed and others who didn’t qualify for traditional unemployment when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. But we continue to work on accuracy,” ODJFS Director Kimberly Hall told the I-Team in a media briefing last week.ĭan Monk Kim Henderson, director of Ohio's Department of Job and Family Services, from May 24 Zoom call. “With our dramatic volume, we know that error rates and overpayments are an issue and will be a challenge. Ohio processed 1.7 million claims this year, more than the previous four years combined.
State officials did not reveal a dollar amount for the overpayments. Ohio’s PUA error rate is much higher than in the state’s traditional unemployment program, which overpaid 7.1% of the 809,160 claimants who received jobless benefits through September 23.Ĭombined, the two programs distributed nearly $1.3 billion in payments to 1.4 million people this year, 12.1% of whom were overpaid. That’s 19.7% of the 549,198 people who were approved for Ohio benefits under the emergency-relief program created by the CARES Act in March. The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services told the WCPO I-Team that it overpaid 108,290 PUA claimants through August 31. It’s no comfort to Borer that others shared in her misery, even if those others are enough to fill Paul Brown Stadium and Great American Ball Park combined. “It was definitely nerve-wracking that it was like overnight that it switched, and I had this overpayment balance.” resident who works at Salons by JC in Norwood. “You could see where all of my benefit amounts had been changed,” said Borer, a Park Hills, Ky. Instead, her account showed she owed Ohio $3,049. Make it simple to apply, but be ready to prove your claims, because that's ultimately what's going on here.CINCINNATI - Ciara Borer logged into Ohio’s unemployment system this month, hoping to learn when she could expect payment on Pandemic Unemployment Assistance claims she filed in July. It's really a bit backwards how they've gone about it. hopefully I got everything they're asking for and my fraud cases will be resolved. I have no idea what happened to my copies, but I ordered them and sent screenshots of the orders, unfortunately they'll nit arrive in the five days allotted to respond to the requests, so I explained that and sent the screenshots along with sux months of business records. I don't know, but I sent them everything they asked for except for birth certificate and social security card. It seems like maybe they're trying to avoid paying out. I get the feeling that they are trying to nit only bust people cheating, but have such a huge list of requirements that are difficult to produce. It was a LOT I spent an hour uploaded over twenty documents they'd asked for, the most difficult part was the social and birth certificate required along with state id and a second photo identification. They finally got back to me with their list of paperwork to prove you really were self employed. Pray its soon because as all of us i am still currently outta work and with the rising cases in Ohio and in my county it looks like that is not gonna change anytime soon.
#OHIO PUA PENDING ISSUES UPDATE#
I have sent everything in and am currently waiting for a change i will update everyone when something changes. But i suggest filling out and sending in any paper work you receive because they CAN and more then LIKELY will close your case for non-compliance. So it looks like we are all just playing a waiting game. None of my payments are on hold just read submitted. All my Bank information is there and can be seen. I have been receiving unemployment sense May on it with out a problem. I do use Chime and i have used it for over 2 years. When asked for a time frame he said 48 hours from the date of submission. He informed me that ONLY AFTER EVERYTHING is turned in will the review your case.
After i submitted everything i called the Spanish line and was on hold less then 5 mins and spoke to an agent. I woke to a fact finding request in my inbox which again you can only attach one document and they request like 7 so i sent them in through the issues and determination location under the blue hyperlink located next to the fraud section. I called and was given the email to request a fact finding document which i received day before yesterday.
Okay so i have had the same issue on July 15th i received two issues of fraud.
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