Delaware News Journal
Terri Rosetta has received about a dozen letters from the state Department of Labor attempting to verify the employment of people who have never worked for her.
She is the co-owner of the Milford diner. My concern is maybe restaurants are being targeted because a lot of them have closed down,” she said.
But fraudulent unemployment claims are on the rise in Delaware and across the nation, and all kinds of businesses are being named in the scams.
The Delaware Division of Unemployment Insurance received about 180,000 claims from March 2020 to March 2021. Over 6,000 of them were identified as attempted unemployment fraud, according to division director Darryl Scott.
Delaware unemployment fraud attempts surge
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