A report from State Auditor Mary Mosiman finds Iowa Workforce Development paid out more than 909-thousand dollars in unemployment benefits that should not have been paid. Mosiman says her office started investigating at the request of the former I-W-D director…..

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The State Auditor says her report includes several recommendations for strengthening the controls at I-W-D and ensuring this doesn’t happen again…

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Mosiman says federal and state law enforcement has been made aware of the fake businesses which collected the unemployment. Teresa Wahlert was the director of I-W-D when the fake companies and the phone issue came up. She resigned in January of 2015 after her reappointment to the job looked to be in trouble in the Iowa Senate.