Watchdog agency increases its pandemic unemployment benefits ...

As much as $135 billion in fraudulent Covid-19 pandemic unemployment insurance claims were likely paid out, according to a report released ...

Watchdog: COVID pandemic unemployment fraud was up to $135B

A government watchdog agency found that about 15% of all unemployment benefits from the government have been claimed illegally since the ...

Pandemic unemployment insurance fraud could have cost $135B ...

A report by the Government Accountability Office this week paints a gloomy picture of the amount of unemployment benefits lost to fraud during ...

Pandemic unemployment fraud as high as $135B, watchdog says

Fraudulent unemployment insurance payouts during the pandemic amounted to $100 billion to $135 billion, according to an estimate from the Government ...

Pandemic unemployment benefits fraud may top $45 billion, federal ...

Some $45.6 billion in pandemic unemployment benefits may have been fraudulently paid to criminals between March 2020 and April 2022, the US ...

Pandemic unemployment fraud estimate reaches $46.5 billion

The government also announced Thursday it had reached the “milestone” of charging 1,000 individuals with crimes involving jobless benefits ...

How much money did pandemic unemployment programs pay out?

The Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) program expanded eligibility to workers who cannot receive traditional unemployment benefits − self- ...

Oversight Committee Releases Report on Rampant Waste, Fraud ...

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) estimates 11 to 15 percent of total benefits paid during the pandemic were fraudulent, totaling ...

Watchdog Finds States, Labor Dept. Awarded $45B in ... - MeriTalk

... insurance (UI) pandemic benefits to ... The watchdog has previously raised alarm bells regarding the fraud from pandemic benefits.

OIG Oversight of the Unemployment Insurance Program - DOL-OIG

In total, the likely fraudster(s) received more than $1.5 million in unemployment benefits. In the same audit, we found that, from March 28, ...

Labor Department watchdog identifies $45 billion of potential ...

The Labor Department inspector general on Thursday identified $45.6 billion in potential unemployment insurance fraud during the pandemic, ...

Watchdog Finds Self Certification Contributed to Nearly $50 Billion ...

WASHINGTON – State workforce agencies were hamstrung in their ability to prevent fraud in the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) program ...

GAO-24-107471, Pandemic Unemployment Assistance

... UI through the agency's UI. Fraud Risk ... At the same time, states were dealing with increasing unemployment due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Statement of Michael E. Horowitz Chair, Pandemic Response ...

The Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) program expanded eligibility to workers who do not receive traditional unemployment benefits such as self-employed ...

Labor Watchdog's Pandemic Work Results in More Than 1000 ...

Today, Inspector General Larry D. Turner, U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), announced that the Office of Inspector General's (DOL-OIG) ...

Lessons Learned When a Pandemic Led to Rapidly Rising ...

We also found racial disparities in the receipt of benefits under one of the four temporary UI programs—the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance ...

PUA Improper Rate Report - Unemployment Insurance

PUA was a cri cal part of enhanced unemployment benefits during the pandemic. ... numbers of claims amidst an unprecedented increase in ...

Pandemic Fraud May Have Robbed Unemployment Insurance of ...

More generous unemployment benefits doled out during the pandemic appear to have been a magnet for fraud, according to a government watchdog ...

Pandemic Unemployment Fraud Estimate Jumps to $45.6B

The Labor Department has increased its previous estimate of pandemic-era unemployment benefits fraud by nearly $30 billion. The agency has ...

Ohio Department of Job and Family Services | Inspector General

In 2020, because of the COVID-19 pandemic and the increased unemployment of millions of Americans, Congress passed various programs to ...