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Thursday, January 10, 2013

Dep't of Labor Reports More Than $5 Billion in 'Improper' Unemployment Insurance Payments

The U.S. Department of Labor’s website includes a database that shows the total dollar amount of improper payments of unemployment insurance benefits for all 50 states, U.S. territories and the District of Columbia, which totaled $5,159,629,434 from July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2012.

The database also shows that 2.85 percent, or $1.28 billion, of the total unemployment insurance payments ($45.2 billion) in that timeframe were the result of fraud. (See here and click on XLS sheet for “2012 Calendar Year data.”)

On the “browse by topic” section of the Department of Labor website is a link for “Unemployment Insurance” that takes visitors to the page devoted to that topic, including “Unemployment Insurance (UI) Improper Payments by State.”

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

And something is wrong here when unemployed people suddenly find employment when their checks stop!

Anonymous said...

10:50
Funny how that works much of the time. I saw someone on facebook complain their unemployment was running out. They had already been on it 2 years and now since it was running out they were seriously looking for a job.