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State, County Prisoners in Pennsylvania Collect Unemployment Benefits
Philadelphia tabloids exposed in February 2016 a glitch in Pennsylvania's jobless assistance program that has allowed thousands of prisoners to collect unemployment checks from behind bars.
The Daily News reported that 1,162 Philadelphia Prison System (PPS) prisoners had each received unemployment checks averaging $344 a week over 18 weeks, totaling ...
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