One Man, One Social Security Number, Unemployment Fraud in 40 States
Although dollar amounts vary, it appears that massive amounts of government money is landing in the pockets of thieves and fraudsters.
A story in Axios earlier this summer alleged as much as $400 billion in unemployment benefits had been stolen since the start of the pandemic, much of it by international criminal syndicates.
The report, and a follow-up by the same publication, drew some skepticism at the time, largely because its only sources seemed to be a pair of companies that are in the business of getting governments to spend money on services to prevent such theft.
WASHINGTON Democratic President Joe Biden’s nominee to run the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), California OSHA Director Doug Parker, spent his Senate confirmation hearing fending off Republican demands that Biden deep-six a union-pushed Emergency Temporary Standard to comba.
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The Secret Service has helped recover about $2 billion in fraudulent unemployment payments connected to Covid relief efforts, the agency announced Wednesday, and the funds are being returned to state unemployment offices.
“The amount of unemployment insurance benefits provided in response to the COVID-19 pandemic is unprecedented in the history of the nation’s unemployment insurance system,” Larry D. Turner, Acting Inspector General at the Department of Labor, said in a statement. “Unfortunately, the significant increase in benefits made the program a target for those seeking to defraud government programs.”
Saying that the $2 billion figure is a “conservative estimate” and that investigations are ongoing, Roy Dotson, Secret Service assistant special agent in charge, told CNBC that the crimes were typical of the kind of cyberfraud the agency deals with every year, though at a larger scale. Most of the fraudulent u
Wisconsin overpaid $66 million in unemployment benefits; recipients required to pay it back
MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) After sometimes months of waiting for unemployment checks, some Wisconsinites are getting letters from the state saying they have to pay the money back.
It happened to a waitress recently who had to pay six months worth of benefits back to the state.
The Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development says nearly 80,000 people had overpayments set up for a total of $66 million. It completely just threw me off and I was so stressed out about it, I just put the letter aside, I just didn t want to deal with it, said Patrisha Ryan.
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