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The Financial Assistance Department has identified almost $500,000 in overpayments due to fraud and abuse, according to a Government report. The Department of Financial Assistance Annual Report 2020-21 – tabled in the House of Assembly yesterday – sa...

Moving more people from unemployment benefit to Financial Assistance will help identify barriers to employment, the economy and labour minister said yesterday. Jason Hayward said: “Our aim is to transition as much people as we possibly can on to the ...

The pandemic-induced lockdowns of 2020 led to a surge in online overseas purchases by local residents. But any hopes of local retailers that shoppers would return to their old habits in 2021 were dashed - overseas purchases kept rising to new records...

The $3.5 million overpaid in unemployment benefits over the Covid-19 crisis is being targeted for return, the labour minister has insisted. Jason Hayward said: “I know that the Ministry of Finance has a team working hard to recover those funds. “The ...

The Government must improve administrative procedures to prevent overpayments of emergency unemployment benefits, the Auditor-General has said. And efforts should be made to recover $3.5 million in estimated overpayments to ensure that the “integrity...

The Opposition One Bermuda Alliance has described the latest employment statistics as “horrifying but not unexpected”. Jarion Richardson, the shadow labour minister, spoke out following the release of a report showing that the economy shed 1,900 jobs...

The island’s cricketing authority has joined forces with the Government to boost the employment prospects of fans. The Bermuda Cricket Board and the Department of Workforce Development have agreed to use matches as opportunities to get people to sign...

Unemployed people will be able to claim financial assistance from government for up to seven years under changes agreed by MPs on Friday. Legislators raised the cap on the amount of time people can claim financial assistance from five years to seven ...

Government has passed legislation that will enable it to recover overpayments of unemployment benefit more effectively. The Public Treasury (Administration and Payments) Amendment and Validation Act 2021 (the Act) was passed in the House of Assembly ...

An extra two years will added to the Government’s five-year financial assistance for the island’s able bodied unemployed, under legislation tabled on Friday. Jason Hayward, the labour minister, said changes would be retroactive to cover payments sinc...

Unemployed Bermudians were yesterday urged to contact the workforce development department to fill vacant positions. The appeal came as it was announced that work permit applications submitted for non-Bermudian partners of work permit holders “will g...

All applicants who met the criteria to receive Government unemployment benefits have been paid, the Ministry of Finance said today. But a ministry spokeswoman added that more than 500 applications had still not been verified by employers, while more ...