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California unemployment fraud 4 times worse than first reported; $8 billion paid to criminals


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2021 Jan 15, 8:54am   283 views  7 comments

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SAN FRANCISCO -- The amount of unemployment funds stolen from California taxpayers in 2020 may total more than $8 billion -- four times higher than estimated just one month ago.

Since the start of the pandemic, we've shared countless stories of struggling Californians desperate to get their unemployment benefits.

Legitimate claimants are being mistaken for scammers.

"They're trained to tell me absolutely zero information because I could be potentially a scammer," said Ben Chrimes of San Jose.

"They cut the card off. They didn't even allow me to get my money that they had already given to me on the card," Roxzan Macon of Hesperia told KGO-TV.

Yet people who don't deserve the money are getting it.

Bank of America said last month $2 billion had been paid out in fraudulent unemployment claims.

But Robert Lapsley of the California Business Roundtable says the number is higher -- way higher.

The state revealed before the pandemic more than 8% of all jobless claims paid between 2016 to 2019 went to scammers.

Last year California paid out $106 billion in EDD benefits.

"If you take that same number, that puts you know, the total fraud, you know, at least eight-and-a-half billion dollars," said Lapsley.

https://abc7.com/finance/report-more-than-$8b-paid-to-criminals-in-ca-edd-fraud/9619743/

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1   RWSGFY   2021 Jan 15, 8:57am  

Pay your taxes, suckers!
2   Eric Holder   2021 Jan 26, 4:09pm  

California Labor Secretary Julie Su told reporters in a conference call Monday that of the $114 billion the state has paid in unemployment claims, about 10% — or $11.4 billion — have been confirmed as fraudulent.

Nearly $20 billion more — another 17% — is considered suspicious, and a large part of that could be found to be fraud, she said.


So we're looking at $30-50 billion, folks.
3   MAGA   2021 Jan 26, 4:23pm  

Realtors?


4   FuckTheMainstreamMedia   2021 Jan 27, 6:58am  

These idiots actually tried to blame it on Trump.
5   HeadSet   2021 Jan 27, 8:24am  

FuckTheMainstreamMedia says
These idiots actually tried to blame it on Trump.


Yes, but not really idiots. They know that their base will believe these lies. Democrat Mantra should be "Telling Lies to Those Eager to believe Them."
6   zzyzzx   2021 Jan 27, 8:47am  

Fuck California!
7   Blue   2021 Jan 27, 9:47am  

Eric Holder says
$114 billion the state has paid in unemployment claims

Most of it must have gone to "business", not individuals.

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