Here is some updated information on the claim-filing questions in Wisconsin. You can find prior versions of these questions at this October 2020 post, which has the questions that existed as of September 2020.
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Work requirements, wages, and jobs
Debt ceiling talks are focused on abstract “work requirements.” What these actually mean are not described in any detail. The unstated presumption is that people who receive government benefits do not work in some way because of those government benefits.
Jobs, the debt ceiling, and recession
The month of May is going to be eventful, as either a deal on the debt ceiling will be reached (i.e., raising it) or a massive recession and possible economic calamity will strike. Or, just maybe we will get a
The November 2022 public hearing
At the January 2023 meeting of the Advisory Council, the Department presented the public testimony from the November 2022 public hearing. As has happened in the past, there was no discussion or examination of that testimony.
Note: Examination of
The legal and illegal unemployment collections in Wisconsin
Legislature pushes a bunch of no-reform unemployment proposals
With the April 2023 election, an incredibly general, state-wide advisory ballot question about people on welfare needing to work passed by wide margins.
The Wisconsin legislature has taken that passage as a message to suddenly revamp and fine tune unemployment
Trying out whisper for transcribing audio
Artificial intelligence is all the rage nowadays, and Barton Gellman indicated how whisper.cpp presented fantastic accuracy.
So, I gave the app a run, and it is impressive. Unfortunately, directions for usage could be a bit better. Here are some helpful
Department investigators are NOT true and accurate
At almost every unemployment hearing there will be document in the hearing packet that pretends to be a claimant statement. This “statement” pretends to represent what the claimant told a Department investigator in a phone call, and at the hearing
Claim filing after the pandemic
In late 2022, it is time to see what has happened in Wisconsin with unemployment claim-filing.
Note: The charts presented here are from the Unemployment Insurance Data Explorer, which takes DOL unemployment data obtained from the states and provides
Unemployment public hearing in 2022
The Department has announced three hours of public hearing on November 17th from 2 to 4 pm and from 5 to 6 pm for unemployment comments and feedback.
Prior registration for a specific session is required.
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