Posts tagged unemployment fraud

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    Fraud had ‘significant’ role in $163 billion leak from pandemic-era unemployment system

    May 30, 2022 // More than $163 billion in benefits likely leaked from the unemployment system during the pandemic, with a “significant portion” attributable to fraud, according to a U.S. Department of Labor report.

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    Illinois: Pritzker administration still won’t reveal unemployment fraud estimate

    February 12, 2022 // From the third quarter of 2020 through the second quarter of 2021, a spreadsheet from the U.S. Department of Labor shows Illinois’ fraud rate for unemployment payouts was 8.4% of $5.1 billion, an indication of nearly $430 million in fraud during that time period.

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