Police Urge Residents to Stop Reporting Unemployment Fraud to Law Enforcement
Police Urge Residents to Stop Reporting Unemployment Fraud to Law Enforcement On 2/9/21 at 6:11 PM EST Police across the U.S. are urging residents to call state labor agencies—and not local law enforcement—amid a barrage of calls from people reporting unemployment insurance (UI) fraud or pandemic relief package scams. The Batavia Police Department in upstate New York on Tuesday joined hundreds of local law enforcement agencies in asking both potential victims and concerned residents to report allegations of unemployment benefit fraud directly to the state's Department of Labor. Police in ...