fraudulent unemployment claims from covid

mickeyrat

soooooo got a phone call monday from my terminal manager asking if I filed a unemployment claim last year or this year. I did not. I guess the state sent an info request to the company.

THEN I received such a request from the state as if I were an employer too.

my buddy's 83 yr old mother received the same request for info with her as the claimant AND the employer....

shit is rampant in Ohio.

was curious what you all are hearing in your state?

mickeyrat

same buddy just texted and said his boss/owner received 4 of the same requests.....

tempo_n_groove

mickeyrat said:

same buddy just texted and said his boss/owner received 4 of the same requests.....

If you can sell a dependent then you can fraud a covid claim.

mickeyrat

Oh, I also received an information request as if I was an employer.......

jerparker20

I had someone file a fraudulent unemployment claim in my name last spring. Received verification forms from my state’s UI office. Reported it right away to my employer and the UI office. A week later I received two physical unemployment checks in the mail. Reported it again. Thought it was taken care of... Nope’ received a 1099 from my state’s revenue department in January. Back on the phone. Finally got it put to bed and was able to file.

The kick of the whole thing is that I’m a state employee.

static111

Someone tried to file a claim on me in a different state while I was on UE at the beginning of the pandemic.  I contacted the state immediately and got that shut down.  Lots of fraud going on.  WA where I filed was hit really hard

Halifax2TheMax

There's no truth to the rumours that Hillary and Obama were swept up in the investigation. However, there are reports that Jared Dear Boy, Ivanka Darlink, Donny, Jr, and the dumb one are scheduled to appear in court on Monday.

The Justice Department has charged 474 people over the past year with trying to swipe more than $569 million by using criminal fraud schemes connected to the coronavirus pandemic and seized at least $580 million in civil proceedings, officials announced Friday, demonstrating how taxpayer-funded programs meant to ease the economic burden of the crisis have become susceptible to scammers.

The department said it has seen fraud attempts connected to several government aid programs. The Criminal Division’s Fraud Section, for example, has charged at least 120 people in connection with fraud of the Paycheck Protection Program, a taxpayer-subsidized loan program regulated by the Small Business Administration, which has long been of concern because of how program funds were disbursed with relatively little oversight.

The department said it had also seen immense fraud in connection with the Economic Injury Disaster Loans program, and, along with the Secret Service and U.S. attorney’s office in Colorado, had seized $580 million of possibly stolen money from that program through administrative procedures. That money, authorities said, is separate from the funds explicitly tied to criminal charges.

Also, the Justice Department said it had found business owners inflating payroll expenses to get Paycheck Protection Program loans larger than what they would have qualified for, as well as “serial fraudsters” reviving defunct corporations or purchasing shell companies with no operations to apply for large loans.

Justice Dept. anticipates coronavirus stimulus will be a major target for fraud

In one case in Texas, the department said, a man pleaded guilty to submitting 15 fake applications under various business names to try to obtain $24.8 million in loans, when none of the businesses had employees or paid the wages he claimed they did. Most of those charged, the department said, spent the government aid on houses, cars, jewelry and other luxury items.

“The Department of Justice has led an historic enforcement initiative to detect and disrupt COVID-19 related fraud schemes,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement. “The impact of the department’s work to date sends a clear and unmistakable message to those who would exploit a national emergency to steal taxpayer-funded resources from vulnerable individuals and small businesses. We are committed to protecting the American people and the integrity of the critical lifelines provided for them by Congress, and we will continue to respond to this challenge.”

Jobless claims fall to lowest level of the pandemic

The department said it had also seen significant fraud in connection with unemployment insurance, the use of which ballooned during the pandemic.

The department said it had charged more than 140 people with such fraud since the start of the pandemic, and it had found organized, international criminal groups trying to apply for the funds using stolen identities, as well as more run-of-the-mill fraudsters in the United States.

That the department is seeing such a massive quantity of fraud efforts is not necessarily surprising, given the scope of the pandemic and the amount of money the government has made available in aid. Early in the pandemic, Congress passed a $2 trillion relief bill known as the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security, or Cares Act. This month, lawmakers approved a $1.9 trillion relief plan.

Officials have seen such abuses during other disasters and economic crises, perhaps most comparably with the 2008 Troubled Asset Relief Program, which doled out hundreds of billions of dollars. That program’s inspector general’s office, which remains active, says its investigations have resulted in the recovery of $11 billion.