The federal government and states overpaid an estimated $14 billion in benefits in fiscal 2011, or roughly 11% of all the jobless benefits paid out, according to reports from the U.S. Labor Department.
Of the states, Indiana was the worst offender, making more improper payments than it did correct ones. …
But of the overpaid funds, most end up in the hands of three types of people: Those who aren’t actively searching for a job, those who were fired or quit voluntarily, and those who continue to file claims even though they’ve returned to work. Any of those circumstances would make a person ineligible for benefits.
The overpayment typically results from an administrative error made either by the government, the employer, the worker or a combination of the three.
In much rarer situations, people deliberately defraud the system…
Rare?
See: …most end up in the hands of three types of people: Those who aren’t actively searching for a job, those who were fired or quit voluntarily, and those who continue to file claims even though they’ve returned to work…
Seems to me that’s ALL deliberately defrauding the system.
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Indiana?
Shocked. shocked I tell you! Just.. shocked!
When they say the Gov. funded it is not funded by the Gov. it funded by the tax payer if they over paid they overpaid with tax payer money . No one is saying anything about the 100billion dollars for infrastructure just passed along with the bill to keep the interest on college loans down so the poor college students could pay back the billions of dollars they owe more easily. 100 Billion dollars tax payer dollars!! NOT government dollars. We tax payers owe trillions of dollars and they pass a 100 billion dollar infrastructure bill. WTF????
But it’s expected fraud…
I think this proves that if dumbasses give dumbasses money, dumbass things will happen.
Not sure how we ended up with such fraud.
I would have expected our neighbor to the west.
Factoring the costs of recovery, they will be lucky to get 5% of it back.