{"id":361975,"date":"2022-02-14T06:00:58","date_gmt":"2022-02-13T20:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=361975"},"modified":"2022-02-14T06:00:58","modified_gmt":"2022-02-13T20:00:58","slug":"us-labor-would-waive-recovery-of-any-pua-pfuc-overpayments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/us-labor-would-waive-recovery-of-any-pua-pfuc-overpayments\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018US Labor would waive recovery of any PUA\/PFUC overpayments\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_361976\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-361976\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Gregorio-C.-Sablan-PWB.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Gregorio-C.-Sablan-PWB.jpg\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-361976\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gregorio-C.-Sablan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Delegate Gregorio Kilili C. Sablan (Ind-MP) said over the weekend that the U.S. Department of Labor would waive recovery of unemployment benefit overpayments in cases where applicant was not at fault. <\/p>\n<p>In his e-kilili newsletter, Sablan, however, stated that cases of fraud will still be subject to action for recovery of overpayments. <\/p>\n<p>According to U.S. Labor, when states waive recovery of overpayment, collection activities cease. <\/p>\n<p>The delegate said that, in its announcement Monday, U.S. Labor outlined five scenarios in which an individual applying for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance or Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation would not be required to repay excess benefits.<\/p>\n<p>The scenarios are the following:<\/p>\n<p>An individual responded \u201cno\u201d to being able and available for work and the state or territory failed to adjudicate the eligibility issue.<\/p>\n<p>An individual was eligible for payment, but was issued payment at a higher rate than entitled.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7The individual responded \u201cno\u201d to being unemployed, partially unemployed or unable or unavailable to work due to the approved coronavirus-related reasons, and the state or territory paid a benefit anyway.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7The state or territory incorrectly calculated the weekly benefit amount.<\/p>\n<p>The individual submitted a proof of self-employment earnings and the stat e or territory incorrectly processed the information.<\/p>\n<p>As of Jan. 15, 2022, unemployed individuals in the Marianas have received $261 million from the PUA and FPUC programs U.S. Congress created in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act.<\/p>\n<p>Last August, Labor Secretary Vicky Benavente disclosed that they have traced $31.3 million overpayments in PUA, PFUC, and Lost Wages Assistance, and collected $28 million from such overpayments. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delegate Gregorio Kilili C. Sablan (Ind-MP) said over the weekend that the U.S. Department of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":361977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}