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The Massachusetts Department of Unemployment Assistance announced new security measures to speed up identity verification and address what it says is a "continued surge of fraudulent claim attempts." The measures come a week after the state said it may have lost more than $400 million to unemployment fraud scams that used stolen information to file thousands of fake claims. Sign up for our Newsletters The department is contracting with ID.me, a.
Expert: Ohio lags other states in stopping huge unemployment fraud Josh Sweigart
Ohio unlike other states failed to put measures in place to detect and prevent massive unemployment fraud that’s part of a scheme that could total $100 billion nationally, an expert told the Dayton Daily News.
The widespread fraud also has delayed payment to Ohioans with legitimate claims.
State officials in December identified more than 56,000 claims totaling $330 million as fraudulent. But the number could be much larger. Of the roughly 1.4 million applicants for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, more than half have been flagged as potentially fraudulent.
Haywood Talcove, CEO of LexisNexis Risk Solutions Government division, said in an interview with the Dayton Daily News that his company could stop the fraud in two days.
With the application period for the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s COVID-19 funeral reimbursement program now open, Attorney General Maura Healey and the Massachusetts Funeral Directors Association are advising residents to be wary of scams and not to give out personal and financial information over the phone or email. Eligible individuals can receive up to $9,000 per funeral and $35,500 per…