Washington State Employment Security Department

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Washington State Employment Security Department
Agency overview
Formed1947 (1947)
JurisdictionState of Washington
Agency executive
Websiteesd.wa.gov

The Washington State Employment Security Department is a government agency for the

U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein, since 2018.[2]

History

The Washington State Department of Social Security was created by the legislature in 1937 with divisions to manage the state's unemployment benefits and employment offices.[3] It was originally located in the Old Capitol Building in Olympia but outgrew its offices and was later furnished a separate headquarters building in January 1947. The Department of Social Security was reorganized into the Employment Security Department in the 1947 legislative session.[4] The department used large computers to process payments and data; by 1957, it had 65 IBM machines with 440,000 punch cards to process records for 600,000 workers in the state.[5]

During the

U.S. Department of Justice.[7] By early June, the state government had recovered $333 million out of the $650 million lost to the fraud scheme. The ESD had also implemented stricter reviews for unemployment claims that were later rolled back.[8] In August, the ESD announced that benefits for 86,449 fraudulent accounts totaling $576 million had been paid out, of which $340 million had been recovered.[9]

The ESD's

trust fund originally held $4.7 billion in March 2020, but was reduced to $2.8 billion within three months and is expected to be depleted by 2021.[10][needs update
]

References

  1. ^ "RCW 50.08.010: Employment security department established". Revised Code of Washington. Washington State Legislature. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
  2. ^ "Inslee names former Ambassador Suzi LeVine as new Employment Security Department Commissioner" (Press release). Governor of Washington. March 8, 2018. Retrieved May 25, 2020.
  3. ^ Washington State Legislature (March 16, 1937). "Chapter 162: Unemployment Compensation Act" (PDF). Session Laws of the State of Washington, 1937. Washington State Legislature. pp. 595, 601. Retrieved January 14, 2024.
  4. ^ Washington State Legislature (March 19, 1947). "Chapter 215: Unemployment Compensation" (PDF). Session Laws of the State of Washington, 1947. Washington State Legislature. pp. 908–909. Retrieved January 14, 2024.
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  6. ^ Roberts, Paul; Brunner, Jim (May 21, 2020). "Washington has lost 'hundreds of millions of dollars' to unemployment fraud scheme amid coronavirus joblessness surge". The Seattle Times. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
  7. ^ Brunner, Jim; Roberts, Paul; Malone, Patrick (May 24, 2020). "How missed 'red flags' helped Nigerian fraud ring 'Scattered Canary' bilk Washington's unemployment system amid coronavirus chaos". The Seattle Times. Retrieved May 26, 2020.
  8. ^ Roberts, Paul (June 4, 2020). "Washington's unemployment fraud may have hit $650 million; state recovers $333 million". The Seattle Times. Retrieved June 4, 2020.
  9. ^ Roberts, Paul (August 3, 2020). "Agency: Nearly 87,000 bogus unemployment claims filed in Washington state". The Seattle Times. Retrieved August 3, 2020.
  10. ^ Roberts, Paul (June 29, 2020). "Washington state may need federal loans to cover unemployment claims by year's end". The Seattle Times. Retrieved June 30, 2020.

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