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.
Department spokesman Joe Frank said the provision is part of a jobs bill Gov. Mike Pence signed into law in April, and is partly intended to cut unemployment fraud.
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