Posted on 09/30/2021 5:10:40 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
PHOENIX (AP) — Scammers were able to pocket nearly 30% of the $16 billion in unemployment insurance payments sent out by Arizona since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, the director of the state agency overseeing the program said Thursday.
Most of the fraud happened in the first several months of the pandemic and mainly hit federally funded emergency unemployment insurance programs. Those programs were designed to help people who normally would not be eligible for assistance because they had contract jobs or were so-called “gig workers” such as Uber drivers. Their employers generally did not pay into the unemployment insurance system.
The amount lost to fraud is between $4.3 billion and $4.4 billion, Department of Economic Security Director Michael Wisehart said. Most of that money is probably lost forever because it was siphoned off by out-of-state or overseas scammers who took advantage of the lack of identity verification early in the program.
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So who lost their job at DES for sending money to people who were not working Jan 2020?
Same vapors who voted for Joe Biden.
“because it was siphoned off by out-of-state or overseas scammers who took advantage of the lack of identity verification early in the program.”
Wouldn’t verification of identity be racist?
Hmmm...
That just means that NY scammers got at least 50% - %60 of the funds directed to NY and CA scammers got at least 80% of the CA funds...
Need to check on the very people who know how this worked politically to those implementing it - get them and it ends.
The same guy from Nigeria who always emails me.
Get a list, cross reference it to voter rolls, and anyone who’s name matches any Republican in the state gets thrown in solitary confinement for 9 months before trial.
Can’t be too careful with those types.
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