As part of its ongoing coverage of the unemployment situation in Oklahoma, The Frontier wants to hear from people who applied for the state’s Back to Work Initiative incentive payments announced earlier this year.
A consultant the Department of Human Services is paying $8.5 million to help solve the problem isn’t doing work that is substantially different from five previous efforts, the report found.
“He was supposed to have more years with us.”
The Oklahoma Department of Human Services said it plans to drop a five-year residency requirement for people seeking to sign up for intellectual or developmental disability waiver services after being informed it was unconstitutional.
The Department of Corrections does not follow most federal guidelines for testing and masking for staff
Gov. Kevin Stitt’s decision to end the expanded benefits more than two months early has not helped Valerie Killman find a job and has only made things tougher for her family and thousands of other Oklahomans, she said.
“She was a Rosie the Riveter. You don’t see a lot of African American women as Rosie the Riveter, at least when you’re looking at the television.”
Oklahoma is now one of three states where lawsuits have thwarted orders by governors to end expanded, federally funded unemployment aid early.
