Unemployment Insurance Expedite Payments and Increase Program Integrity
The Department of Labor (DOL) is providing millions of additional funds in grants to states that promote equitable access to Unemployment Compensation (UC) programs. For DOL, this includes eliminating administrative barriers to benefit applications, reducing state workload backlogs, improving the timeliness of UC payments , and ensuring equity in benefit access, payment detection, and recovery activities.
Equifax helps identify return to work faster, validate identities prior to issuing benefits, and properly pay eligible recipients based on their income and employment status.