{"id":15858,"date":"2020-08-13T12:40:17","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T17:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/?p=15858"},"modified":"2020-08-30T12:47:19","modified_gmt":"2020-08-30T17:47:19","slug":"15858","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2020\/08\/13\/15858\/","title":{"rendered":"GA Dept. of Labor Attorney Responds to Questions From State Rep Jeff Jones Regarding illegal Aliens with DACA Receiving Unemployment Benefits    GDOL"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15818\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15818\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15818\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/georgia_dol-300x76.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"76\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15818\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image GA DOL<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>DOL response to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2020\/07\/26\/jeffjones_draft\/\">Rep Jeff Jones letter of July 24, 2020<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 1:20 PM Timothy Mitchell wrote:<\/p>\n<p>Representative Jones:<\/p>\n<p>Your inquiry was forwarded to me for a response. In that regard, please find below in red the responses to your questions.<\/p>\n<p>Please advise if you require additional information.<\/p>\n<p>Tim Mitchell<\/p>\n<p>General Counsel<br \/>\n&#8212;<br \/>\nDOL response in bold.<\/p>\n<p>(Q) Does the information from GBPI coincide with policy and practice in your office &#8211; does your office accept unexpired EADs from DACA recipients as proof of lawful presence?<\/p>\n<p><strong>If the claimant has a valid work permit, appropriate government issued identification and has sufficient wages in the base period, then the claimant will have a valid claim with eligibility to be determined.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(Q) Does your office accept, process and\/or qualify UI applications from non-citizens with DACA?<\/p>\n<p><strong>To have a valid claim, all non-citizen claimant must have a valid work permit or appropriate government issued identification<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(Q) I am aware that each EAD contains a status<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sccgov.org\/ssa\/cp\/cpchap12.pdf\"> code<\/a> from USCIS. Does your office use that code in inspecting and processing applications from non-citizens?<\/p>\n<p><strong>No<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(Q) Please tell me the code or response from the USCIS-operated SAVE verification program to the query from your office when a non-citizen with DACA makes an application for unemployment benefits if DACA status is known or noted during processing. I am aware that other issuing agencies receive a response of \u201cemployment authorized\u201d from SAVE when making immigration status queries for DACA recipients.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We do the same as other state agencies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; DOL response to Rep Jeff Jones letter of July 24, 2020 &nbsp; On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 1:20 PM Timothy Mitchell wrote: Representative Jones: Your inquiry was forwarded to me for a response. In that regard, please find below in red the responses to your questions. Please advise if you require additional information. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15858"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15858"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15992,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15858\/revisions\/15992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}