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Jared Bennett is an investigative reporter for the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting. Before KyCIR, he was a reporter the Center for Public Integrity and a digital producer for WBUR in Boston.
Education professionals can’t claim unemployment during the summer break that started in Louisville on May 31, a caveat the state doesn’t appear to have made clear when it extended benefits to substitute teachers. Subs who continued to file for unemployment after summer break began are now expected to repay anything the state paid in error.
The USPS released the data in response to a lawsuit. Ballots received in Kentucky will be counted till Friday.
The shrinking economic safety net and politics of the moment complicate an otherwise straightforward public health decision.
“These people don’t have that money. They paid for groceries, they used the money,” Sen. Nemes said. “That’s what unemployment is for. When you are unemployed you get your unemployment insurance and you pay your bills so you can get back to work.”
Gov. Andy Beshear acknowledged that Kentucky mistakenly overpaid people who requested unemployment benefits — and advised recipients to save that money.
It’s unclear if state officials ever communicated the change to out-of-work Kentuckians after the state received new guidance in April.
In a written decision, a state official said self-quarantining isn’t a legitimate reason to claim unemployment – and that the governor never told a private citizen to leave their job.
Now that the prosecutor has declined to charge the officers who killed Shelby Gazaway, LMPD released the case file.
Kentucky officials likely underpaid some workers and overpaid others who weren’t eligible for the benefits they received.
Eric Lycan until recently was the general counsel for Kentucky’s Republican Party, and he’s been at the helm of several super PACs and other nonprofits that have shaped Kentucky’s politics.