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February 21, 2022 Last Edit: June 5, 2025
Top CDLE Officials Discuss UI Fraud with NFIB Members
- How CDLE processes claims for unemployment and how long the process takes
- The fact-finding of applicants
- Premium rates
- Base-rate schedule
- The surcharge kick-in to start in 2023 unless the Legislature acts of Gov. Jared Polis’ request to use $600 million in ARPA and state funds to pay down UI Trust Fund loans
- Why some UI benefits went to workers who did not need them
- The backlog of claims
- Current status of investigations underway and who is conducting them
- Earlier this month, Sen. Rob Woodward discussed his ideas for getting a grip on the UI crisis facing Colorado.
- Last month, Patrick Meyers, chief economic recovery officer and executive director of the state’s Office of Economic Development & International Trade, and Daniel Salvetti, strategy and analytics manager for OEDIT, provided an update on the current condition of the trust fund.
- In December 2021, Sen. Chris Hansen, chairman of the Appropriations Committee, gave his thoughts on how the state might pay down or off the more than $1 billion in loans it took from the federal government to keep its unemployment insurance trust fund running.
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