Unemployment System – South Carolina

Audit: SC jobless agency safeguards didn’t work, By Jeffrey Collins (AP), March 13, 2012, The State: “The second independent audit of South Carolina’s unemployment agency in the past two years has found its system for checking whether people getting jobless benefits also received wages at a job didn’t work properly for six years. The Legislative Audit Council’s latest report, released Tuesday, also found the Department of Employment and Workforce does not consistently verify that people receiving jobless benefits are looking for work. It said unemployment offices are sometimes impossible to reach on the phone and some employers are making the agency’s job tougher by not following the law and reporting the identities of new hires. The report did praise some actions taken since the last audit in 2010, including work to make sure that the trust fund that pays benefits is brought back in balance by 2015…”