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We first talked to Lynn Moreau, the owner of The Eyelash Place, almost two weeks ago. We talked again on Saturday after the much-anticipated press conference from the Department of Workforce Development.
Moreau said she didn’t want to miss it, but takes issue with their words, especially when DWD Commissioner Fred Payne said, “we’re not in the business of being overly burdensome to individuals.”
Pandemic Unemployment Assistance payments were a lifeline to Moreau because of a business which screeched to a halt during the pandemic.
She’s now fighting the state’s action.
Since we first interviewed her, she now realizes while the state is demanding 23 payments of $449 dollars, a total of $10, 317, her bank statements clearly show her getting a weekly deposit of $386, a total difference of $1,449. She also believes she didn’t receive the first payment in January.
The department has received and distributed $8.8 billion of unemployment money since the coronavirus pandemic began in March 2020.
The office of Gov. Eric Holcomb, a Republican, has restricted or blocked access to Commissioner Payne for months, which is the reason News 8 came to the Government Center South building on Wednesday and knocked on doors trying to get answers for Hoosiers.
Those Hoosiers include Danita Owens. She began helping her brother navigate the unemployment system after he lost his job in 2020, but now the state wants most the money repaid.
“It doesn’t make any since. You don’t pay people out and then turn around and say you got to pay it all back due to documents not being received because they were,” Owens said.
Jul 8, 2021 / 10:57 PM EST
FISHERS, Ind. (WISH) Several more people are coming forward with stories of the state of Indiana demanding they repay $10,000 or more of pandemic unemployment benefits.
Lisa Sales got surprised when she logged into the state’s unemployment claims portal a few weeks ago. According to the state, she owes $9,878, basically all her unemployment claims since the start of 2021.
“My stomach did drop. It scared me because I thought this couldn’t be right,” Sales said.
She was an independent contractor working as a verbatim hearing reporter with the federal Social Security Administration until all hearings stopped back in March 2020.