DLT stops payment of $3.2B in fraudulent unemployment claims during pandemic
Updated at 2:13 p.m. on March 5, 2021.
THE R.I. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND TRAINING announced on Friday that it has stopped $3.2 billion in fraudulent unemployment claims over the past year. / AP FILE PHOTO/PAUL SAKUMA CRANSTON – The R.I. Department of Labor and Training has stopped an estimated $3.2 billion in unemployment benefits from being paid out to fraudsters over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic through detection efforts, the department said Friday. DLT has stopped a total of 426,643 suspected fraudulent unemployment claims from March 9, 2020 to March…
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COVID-19 weekly unemployment filings spike in R.I. amid exhaustion of initial benefits
THERE WERE 79,970 individuals collecting some form of unemployment benefit in Rhode Island last week. / AP FILE PHOTO/PAUL SAKUMA PROVIDENCE – COVID-19-related unemployment insurance filings in Rhode Island rose by 16,036, more than double the 7,120 one week prior, the R.I. Department of Labor and Training said on Tuesday. To date, COVID-19 unemployment insurance filings in the state total 302,127. The rise in filings week to week did not keep pace with continuing benefit…
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