Bank of America fined $225M for freezing unemployment benefits during pandemic
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Aaron Nicodemus2022-07-15T16:45:00
A pair of regulators slapped a total of $225 million in fines on Bank of America for failures related to unemployment benefit disbursements the bank made during the pandemic.
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