The U.S. Labor Department is setting up an unemployment insurance modernization unit within the office of Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh, part of a broader initiative to give the federal government a beefed-up presence helping states upgrade benefits technology.
The new team will be responsible for overseeing the department’s use of $2 billion awarded by Congress in March to curb jobless aid fraud, promote equitable access to benefits, and improve the pace of payments to laid-off workers, the agency announced Tuesday.
The office will be directed by Yvette Meftah, who worked at the DOL during the Obama administration. The deputy ...