The ruling came in response to a class-action lawsuit filed in 2021 opposing the state’s ban on jobless pay for people on SSDI. When Wisconsin banned SSDI recipients from unemployment pay, however, DWD under the administration of former Gov. For many SSDI recipients that would wipe out their jobless pay entirely, according to unemployment insurance lawyer Victor Forberger. Tony Evers has three times proposed budgets that would end the ban on UI for SSDI recipients on the grounds that “denying unemployment insurance (UI) benefits to social security disability insurance (SSDI) recipients was discriminatory,” DWD’s statement said. Conley’s July 2024 opinion found barring jobless pay for SSDI recipients violated federal law, the DWD statement said.