Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine. (Photo by Morgan Trau, WEWS.)
Ohio’s Tenth District Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court decision ordering Gov. Mike DeWine to pursue the unemployment compensation he turned down during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Attorneys challenging the state believe there could be as much as $900 million available in unclaimed benefits. They filed a motion Wednesday asking the court to compel DeWine to “take all action necessary” to reclaim those funds within the next five days.
Background
In 2020 and 2021, the federal government offered supplemental benefits worth a couple hundred dollars a week. Nervous those extra dollars were keeping workers on the sidelines, DeWine chose to forgo the added benefits. Thirteen other Republican governors did the same…