INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Unemployed Indiana residents risk losing their jobless benefits if they fail to show up for an in-person meeting required under a new rule that takes effect Oct. 1 and is aimed in part at reducing unemployment fraud.
The state's Department of Workforce Development will begin mailing notices in mid-October to unemployed Indiana residents who've received at least four weeks' worth of jobless benefits, telling them they must schedule an in-person meeting at a local WorkOne office or face the loss of their unemployment payments.
Currently, about 40,000 Indiana residents are drawing state unemployment benefits, while another 20,000 are drawing federal jobless benefits.
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