“Were” collecting? When and how did they stop?
I’m surprised it’s only 100k.
It’s only illegal if they’re Republicans.
Kramer!!!!
Elsewhere I’ve seen comments speculate that Team Musk is wildly incorrect or even lying about the numbers cited here.
No one here should give respect to such counter-comments that don’t include solid, evidentiary support.
It must be a government thing and why do they need a Union ? LOL
That works out to about 100M a month, if they were only getting 1K a month in UE.
Right! That’s what SHOULD be done, but I wanna know what IS being done about it.
then add tariff income out 10 years...
I'd think we're pretty close to a balanced budget, certainly for discretionary spending at minimum. There should be no concern about passing the big beautiful bill.
Need more capacity to jail these CRIMINALS. Oh, just trying to make ends meet. I see.......
There needs to be a new name to describe those employed, but doing no work. Employed sounds too respectable.
ABSOLUTELY!!!!!
Let justice be done.
btt
Demand repayment, with interest, due in 10 days, or 20 years in prison.
After the 10 days, charge all 100k of them with fraud, conspiracy to defraud the government, theft of taxpayer funds, whatever you can charge them with, whether they made restitution, or not.
“ Fire them all. Jail them all. Make them pay restitution!”
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This!
By the way, no judge is going to be able to stop the firing of each and every one of these people, because every federal employee is required to obey the law, both federal and state law.
It is way past time for federal employees to be as fully subject to the law as the rest of the citizens of this country. They are supposed to be serving the Public, and have a very generous pension system, and lots of holidays and paid leave, so they have a pretty nice package when all things are considered. But these people aren’t serving the public, they are defrauding the public. They have not merely broken the law, they have abused the trust of the public, and have damaged the reputation of the federal government.(yeah, I know, that’s a pretty low bar to jump over) as a result of these actions.
Fire them all. Jail them all. Make them pay restitution!
Fire them all. Jail them all. Make them pay restitution!
Though federal employees likely have an above average propensity for workplace grift (because private business owners care when their $$$ is stolen), I bet many of the 100,000 cases occured during Covid when the government prctically begged people to soak up benefits, with little or no proof they qualified.
When Covid came along, I was managing payroll for several employees at a charity shop in Virginia. The employees claimed to be afraid of having any contact with the public, despite this being a rural, low density area. We offered to let them work full time inside the premises cleaning and organizing, with the shop closed to the public. They chose to quit. The State sent inquiries, which I answered truthfully: we offered them safe employment they turned down. I’m pretty sure they collected the federal unemployment deal ($400/week?) anyway. The feds basically pushed people to take the unemployment and make no effort to work, etc., and pushed businesses to take “forgivable” loans they didn’t need. Biggest ripoff in world history.
until arrests are made, these stories have become worthless...
Man, those of us who play by the rules are starting to feel like suckers. We subsidize half the country in lifestyles we can only dream of.
Unemployment offices compare benefit payments to wages reported by employers each quarter. This is the greatest source of catching fraud. Unfortunately, Federal agencies don’t report wages each quarter. They only report wages when an initial unemployment claim is filed.