California EDD: Unemployment fraud in state 4 times worse than first reported
Legitimate claimants are being mistaken for scammers. "They're trained to tell me absolutely zero information because I could be potentially a scammer," said Ben Chrimes of San Jose. "They cut the card off. They didn't even allow me to get my money that they had already given to me on the card," Roxzan Macon of Hesperia told us. Yet people who don't deserve the money are getting it. Bank of America said last month $2 billion had been paid out in fraudulent unemployment claims. But Robert Lapsley of the California Business Roundtable says the number is higher -- way higher. The state revealed ...
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