COLUMBUS— A contract employee working for Ohio’s unemployment system improperly released more than $100,000 in fraudulent pandemic unemployment benefits and collected nearly $19,000 in benefits she ...

Ohioans filed 5,463 initial unemployment claims last week, an increase of 936 from the previous week, the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services reported.

COLUMBUS, Ohio - A mother, her daughter and a friend were indicted by a Franklin County grand jury — along with 12 alleged co-conspirators — in connection with a sweeping $7.3 million fraud scheme ...