Prison Inmates, Dead People Get Unemployment Benefits
Whenever the government gets involved in doling out cash you can always find large amounts of “improper payments”. According to the U.S. Labor Dept improper payments for unemployment benefits topped a whopping $15 billion in 2011. That means that for every $9 dollars that was paid out approximately $1 of it was paid out erroneously! This is not exactly the track record someone would write home to mom about.
Some of these improper benefit payments went to such recipients as prison inmates, illegal aliens and the deceased. Some of these payments went to those who quit their jobs voluntarily.
When will government administrators realize that there will always be people who try and scam the system? The sad part is, like most government transfer payments, that when administrators pay fraudulent benificairies there is less money going to the people who actually need the help.
Check out the list of states below with their percentages of “improper payments” to unemployment beneficiaries. Some of these percentages may shock you. How is your state doing?
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it would be interesting to receive not only information about the fraud but logical ways to stop it.
Apalling! Again, our government at work (not). Notice the numbers for our border states. Does
indiana have the most prisons?
Holding office in Michigan are Ray Bolger, Speaker of the House (Republican) and State Representative Roy Schmidt, (Democrat turned Republican), who scammed, lied to and cheated the people of Michigan, just to try to gain another seat in our State.. With them as teachers and examples of how to cheat and steal, I am surprised that Michigan doesn’t have a much higher percentage of unemployment cheaters.
I think it would be interesting to publish survey results from the “cheaters” to see which party they support. I’ll just bet the majority of the “cheaters” voted a straight Democratic ticket. ESPECIALLY in Michigan.
Seriously, how can Louisiana and Indiana give almost HALF their money away improperly? I was surprised to see my state ranked the lowest, it makes me appreciate the half day hassles I went through during my extensive layoff.
Why doesn’t this surprise me. What does surprise me is NY’s number wasn’t as high as I expected it to be.
That’s not the half of the story. After the unemployment runs out they run to a law firm and file for SSI and are on the dole for the rest of their lives.