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Audit: Colorado paid $73 million in bogus unemployment aid
The Associated Press ^ | December 6, 2021

Posted on 12/06/2021 3:15:13 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

DENVER (AP) — A state audit has found that Colorado likely or potentially paid $73.1 million in fraudulent unemployment claims during the coronavirus pandemic’s first year, including $3.9 million on behalf of dead people and $5 million on behalf of people who were unqualified because they were incarcerated.

The Office of the State Auditor report released Monday cited a nationwide surge in criminal identity theft used to seek federal and state pandemic unemployment aid as an underlying factor in payments in the names of dead and incarcerated people. It also cited pressure to expedite federal Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, a federal loosening of restrictions in disbursement, and inadequate state quality controls to capture the cascade of fraudulent claims.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: fraud; unemployment

1 posted on 12/06/2021 3:15:13 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
...Colorado likely or potentially paid $73.1 million in fraudulent unemployment claims...

New York and California: "Hold my beer."

2 posted on 12/06/2021 3:18:08 PM PST by Veggie Todd (Let's go, Brandon!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Antifa and BLM have to get paid from someone.


3 posted on 12/06/2021 3:19:22 PM PST by rigelkentaurus
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Wouldnt C/O State Prison be a clue ???


4 posted on 12/06/2021 3:21:22 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I’m surprised the number is that low.


5 posted on 12/06/2021 3:24:20 PM PST by SaxxonWoods
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Of course they did. The Democrats are always lying, cheating and stealing from us.


6 posted on 12/06/2021 3:24:33 PM PST by Tommy Revolts
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To: Veggie Todd

All those left coast libs continue to destroy areas they move to.


7 posted on 12/06/2021 3:24:39 PM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Dwarfed only by the number of bogus ballots.


8 posted on 12/06/2021 3:26:38 PM PST by fwdude
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To: fwdude

Yep!


9 posted on 12/06/2021 3:32:29 PM PST by TribalPrincess2U
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Anybody, any single individual person prosecuted? Didn’t think so.


10 posted on 12/06/2021 3:34:16 PM PST by Dogbert41 ("Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled" (Matthew 5:6).)
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Anybody, any single individual person prosecuted?

And so far as I could tell no one was prosecuted for the repeated attacks on the Capitol building during the riots, er, mostly peaceful demonstrations.

11 posted on 12/06/2021 3:39:06 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
NOT AN ACCIDENT, OR INCOMPETENCE!

This is how the DNC fills its coffers!

12 posted on 12/06/2021 3:43:29 PM PST by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my b"ack for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

As James Bond said in Goldfinger, “shocking. Simply shocking.”


13 posted on 12/06/2021 4:00:25 PM PST by samkatz
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Folks wonder why the “poor” are still shopping online and going out to restaurants for dinner….🙄


14 posted on 12/06/2021 4:11:31 PM PST by MrRelevant
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To: SaxxonWoods

“I’m surprised the number is that low”

That is all they caught or are admitting to..it is probably several times larger


15 posted on 12/06/2021 4:18:39 PM PST by Mygirlsmom (Back after a long hiatus. Now mygrandkidsgrandma)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Same with Commiefornia..people got money who didnt even live here, dead people got money, 160 yr olds got money, 5 yr olds got money..now EDD is telling everyone who got PUA(Including myself) to prove that we were employed in 2019-2020 so already gave them my entire 2019 tax return and 1099 to prove it..at the time, anyone could get PUA they never checked, people signed up and automatically got the money, now they are going back to verify everyone who got it really qualified for it


16 posted on 12/06/2021 4:45:57 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Colorado has become so “wook” they are probably all applauding their corrupt state government for their gross incompetence.


17 posted on 12/06/2021 5:16:43 PM PST by elpadre ( ying them.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Whatever it takes to stay in power.


18 posted on 12/10/2021 4:23:41 PM PST by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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