Posted on 05/11/2025 3:54:51 PM PDT by airdalechief
Elon Musk joined Lara Trump on her show “My View” last Saturday night on FOX News.
During their conversation, Elon revealed that the DOGE Team found 100,000 active federal employees, who also collected unemployment insurance benefits, while they were still at work.
Collecting insurance benefits while still working is considered unemployment insurance fraud. Many states classify unemployment fraud as a misdemeanor or felony.
Jail time is a significant risk and can range from several months to several years.
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“DOGE Team found 100,000 active federal employees”
Color me skeptical.
[Joke]
“....Just sayin’”
And probably correctly so.
When you read about this kind of stuff,and then look to see how you’re scrambling to pay your property tax while on SS,it does make me pretty mad.
make them return the salary
That sounds feasible. Are there no rules that one or the other gets repaid?
I’m sure they’d have to repay the unemployment insurance … assuming they are caught in some kind of data check. I’d say there’s no way there could be 100,000 doing this but then again I don’t hang around with grifters so who knows.
I have sent 4 requests to President Trump through the proper channels during his last term and this year at the Whitehouse for a birthday card for my now 99 yr old mother-in-law.
She has received not ONE single card and I am positive it is because of Trump haters working there who are NOT doing their job or are just trying to make him look bad.
Absolutley fraud. Not long ago cases involving federal wage credits had a lower threshold for felony prosecution. The OIG would eagerly take the cases. Not so much lately.
Sounds like fraud. Any arrests?
Was that wrong? Sure, I got a federal paycheck but I wasn’t actually doing anything and so really I was unemployed. So I applied for unemployment insurance in case they ever figured out that they didn’t have me doing anything.
looks like these cases are will be easy to prove not much evidence needed did they apply and collect unemployment while employed?
On-the-job training for their next job?
Pay up AND get locked up!
I have not heard about 100,000 arrest warrants.
I worked with a guy back in Michigan who failed to report that he had returned to work after a layoff. He continued to collect unemployment benefits for six weeks. He had to pay back triple the amount that he had been overpaid.
So which district judge will rule they must be given unemployment payments while working?
Musk has said a lot of things, but there has been little to no evidence released to support claims like this one.
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