Mr.President, There Is A Serious Problem With The EUC08 Program

You sit there, during tough times, being paid less money, while a higher paying new claim "waits" for you to exhaust this older and lesser one. After 52 weeks, the shiny new higher paying claim goes bye-bye. Not such a good deal after all eh? Its like carousel from Logan's Run: almost "nobody" gets to a second EUC08 account. These EUC08 errors kill them off before then. Renew! Renew!

And the gold medal for the greatest red-tape most fubar implementation of law ever goes to...the Department of Labor Employment & Training Administration! Let's give them all a big round of applause! Gay Gilbert, Dale Ziegler and Hilda Solis will be accepting this award on behalf of crooked, corrupt and incompetent government wonks everywhere.

It is a fact. The Department of Labor published serious errors in their EUC08 implementation guidelines, starting in 2008, in UIPL 23-08, change 1 forward through UIPL 4-10, about "Multiple EUC Claims". This does not comply with the federal administrative law found at Title 20 Chapter V Part 615. The Department of Labor has no authority to do this. Why are they implementing this program in this harmful and wasteful way? Why are they ignoring their oversight duty to investigate this evidence and recovery fraud complaint? The same could be asked of the State of California EDD/CUIAB, the FBI, Department of Justice, DOL OIG, Recovery Accountability & Transparency Board, The Treasury, the Congress, and the White House. None of them have much to say one way or the other.