Victims of unemployment fraud in Pa blindsided by tax documents lehighvalleylive.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from lehighvalleylive.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
. HARRISBURG When two checks for nearly $10,000 arrived at her home last summer from the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry, Annette Ravinsky didn’t cash them. Ravinsky, now 61, hadn’t worked since the 1980s and was well aware she neither qualified, nor had applied, for state unemployment benefits. She called the department to report the fraud, asked a legal aid attorney what to do, then returned the checks to the state. Someone at the agency signed a receipt confirming the state received the checks in the mail, and she assumed the issue was resolved.
Coronavirus Coverage But Ravinsky one of at least 50,000 people who have reported unemployment fraud to the agency since the pandemic began wasn’t told that the state would still report the checks as income to the IRS. Now, she’s uncertain how to file her taxes and fearful of being audited.
Thousands of apparent victims of Pandemic Unemployment Assistance fraud have received unexpected tax documents reporting income to the IRS they never took.
This Is Not Right : Pennsylvanians Being Hit By Tax Bills Due To Unemployment Fraud wesa.fm - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wesa.fm Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
State says federal jobless aid could be delayed several weeks after Trump delays signing CARES Act lancasteronline.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from lancasteronline.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.