Police Urge Residents to Stop Reporting Unemployment Fraud to Law Enforcement
On 2/9/21 at 6:11 PM EST
Police across the U.S. are urging residents to call state labor agencies and not local law enforcement amid a barrage of calls from people reporting unemployment insurance (UI) fraud or pandemic relief package scams.
The Batavia Police Department in upstate New York on Tuesday joined hundreds of local law enforcement agencies in asking both potential victims and concerned residents to report allegations of unemployment benefit fraud directly to the state s Department of Labor. Police in Avon Lake, Ohio, in Whitman, Massachusetts, and in Evanston, Illinois, say frustrated taxpayers have called or even shown up at the station holding 1099-G tax forms which show someone is fraudulently reporting income in their name. Often slow to investigate, state agencies say they re already overwhelmed with higher-than-usual jobless claims amid the pandemic and tens of millions of dollars in add
What to know before filing your 2020 taxes
and last updated 2021-02-05 17:31:29-05
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) â A record number of people found themselves unemployed in 2020, forcing the IRS to change some rules when it comes to filing taxes. Hereâs what you need to know.
For the first time ever, you can use your 2019 earned income taxes numbers on your 2020 earned income tax report. This is a good thing for single parents on unemployment.
âSo you take that single parent who, again, usually makes $20,000. This year because of 2020, they make $3000 in wages and $25,000 in unemployment. Their refund would be next to nothing, Vice President of Tax Operations at EG Tax Christopher Fabian said. But now, with the new law, they can go back to their 2020 return, and now theyâre back to their refund of 8 to 12 thousand dollars.â
Kentucky man baffled after receiving Ohio unemployment tax documents
Thousands of 1099-G forms were sent to Ohioans in error. and (at least) one Kentucky man as well.
What to do if you ware victim of fraud By FOX19 Digital Staff | January 27, 2021 at 6:51 PM EST - Updated February 23 at 5:02 PM
CINCINNATI (FOX19) - Fraud and identity theft could account for 10 percent or more of the unemployment claims filed last year through Ohio’s unemployment system, and many thousands of local Ohioans could be victims.
But one Northern Kentucky man says he’s been dragged into the racket as well.
Independence resident Danny Gribbins has been retired for five years. He says he’s never lived or worked in Ohio. Still, in November he says he received debit cards with money for Ohio unemployment benefits he never applied for.