Keely Maude News Today

Eight employees of the Philadelphia Police Department will be charged with allegedly stealing federal pandemic unemployment assistance in 2020. The eight employees were on the city's payroll at the time they filed for, received and spent unemployment funds, investigators said. The employees, including seven dispatchers and a clerk, will be suspended and dismissed. The case will be reviewed by the U.S. Attorney's Office.

Federal prosecutors say the employees fraudulently collected Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, while also collecting their city paychecks.

Seven Philadelphia police radio dispatchers and one department clerk have been indicted on federal charges after they were accused of fraudulently obtaining pandemic unemployment benefits while working for the department.

Eight employees received unemployment benefits while still working for, a