Indiana’s $2 billion unemployment debt

Our Team continues our investigation into alleged mismanagement of the state’s unemployment system, turning now to who’s in charge of watching over the agency.

Current and former employees came forward to I-Team 8, exposing that they were told to use questionable tactics to reduce the workload of an overwhelmed system.

Our questions now turn to the two groups with direct oversight of the Department of Workforce Development, the state agency managing the money of Indiana’s unemployed. It’s an agency that DWD employees say helped put the state $2 billion in debt.

Indiana’s Unemployment Insurance board is a group of business leaders appointed by the governor, supposed to provide oversight of the unemployment system. But the chair of the board, Paula Presnoples, told I-Team 8 that oversight is limited.

“The purview of the committee is the trust fund. It is not the day-to-day operation of the organization, which the commissioner would be responsible for, and the employees of the DWD,” Presnoples said…

via Investigation: Who’s watching DWD?.