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BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) – A Livingston Parish man has been sentenced to 4 years in federal prison after being convicted of fraud in connection with a fraudulent pandemic unemployment benefits scheme. The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that 35-year-old Chaz Ryan Watkins of Springfield, Louisiana, was convicted of …

San Luis Obispo County residents whose ability to work was affected by winter storms that rolled through the county starting in late February are now eligible to apply for federal Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA) benefits. The announcement Monday by the California Employment Development Department (EDD) applies to both full-time and …