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JFAC debates unemployment-insurance funding; accounting correction later approved to move funds between Labor accounts
Summary
Committee members questioned the Department of Labor’s use of interest earnings and staffing levels for unemployment operations. A request to use interest to fund operations drew mixed votes; the committee later approved a technical transfer and appropriation of $4,868,000 to correct fund balances and a reporting language request.
Members of the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee questioned Department of Labor funding and staffing for unemployment insurance operations and the department’s use of interest earnings from the unemployment-security administration account to cover operating costs.
Representative Handy, who moved the original unemployment-insurance operations motion, explained that the department uses interest earnings credited to the unemployment security administration fund to support operations and that the department had increased staffing during the COVID-19 pandemic and…
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