Auditors question $6.1M in unemployment payments for state employees

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The Louisiana Workforce Commission paid about $6.1 million in state and federal unemployment benefits to 1,054 ineligible recipients identified as state employees who do not appear to have been eligible for the programs, the Legislature’s auditors say. Some of the employees in question may have been victims of identity theft, though in some cases the

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