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If you believe someone has applied for unemployment benefits using your personal information, use our secure fraud reporting form to alert us or call the DUA customer service department at (877) 626-6800.
This report (1) provides an estimate of fraud within UI programs during the pandemic; (2) identifies the assistance DOL provided to states; and (3) presents amounts that states reported in UI overpayment recoveries and waivers, among other amounts.
8 lip 2020 · Many are for the new Pandemic Unemployment Program designed to help self-employed workers and independent contractors who are not eligible for standard jobless benefits. The state said it has recovered $158 million from 58,000 fraudulent claims.
18 maj 2023 · "The Massachusetts Department of Unemployment Assistance is experiencing an uptick in fraudulent attempts to access unemployment insurance benefits," Matthew Kitsos, a spokesman for the...
25 lut 2021 · Out of more than two million claims for unemployment insurance and Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, the state has identified 156,000 as fraudulent. The department said it is using "enhanced...
26 lip 2021 · Defrauding unemployment insurance, or UI, programs, which pay out weekly benefits to workers who’ve lost jobs through no fault of their own, is likely as old as the programs themselves.
17 lis 2023 · BOSTON (AP) — A former Massachusetts state senator and Republican candidate for Congress has been accused of fraudulently collecting over $30,000 in pandemic unemployment benefits shortly after...
