Colorado auditor finds $73 million in “likely fraudulent” unemployment payments, including to dead people

coloradosun ^ | Dec 6, 2021 | Tamara Chuang

[entropy12]

Colorado may have paid $73 million in fraudulent unemployment benefits, with payments made to dead people, inmates and underage applicants, a state audit found, more than double the $30 million state labor officials had previously confirmed was improperly paid. TODAY’S UNDERWRITER

“Despite the numerous steps that the department has taken to prevent and detect fraud, our audit identified likely or potentially fraudulent claims that the department didn’t identify,” Ethan Greenberg, senior auditor with the Colorado Office of the State Auditor, told the legislative audit committee hearing Monday.

The auditor’s report found 8,200 unduplicated claims for $73.1 million in payments between March 1, 2020 and April 30. Those include:

$3.87 million to 1,065 deceased claimants, which included “some claimants who’d been deceased for years” $5.04 million to 696 incarcerated claimants. Incarcerated residents are ineligible for unemployment benefits $101,630 to 18 people “not of working age” $18.5 million to 2,919 people who were considered “potentially fraudsters” and had suspicious bank accounts $52.7 million to 4,354 claimants with multiple indicators of fraud

There was overlap and duplication in the fraud claims found by the auditor’s office, but the unduplicated amount is $73.1 million, as seen in the chart below.

[entropy12]

How many dead people are collecting Social Security checks? Some of them are now at age over 110! Your tax dollars at work!

[budj]

Demonrat voters, no doubt.

[T-Bird45]

I’ve been retired since 3/2020 but still work PT for my former employer. HR contacted me this spring to confirm I hadn’t made a UC against my previous employment with them. I confirmed that & was told they’d received a claim on my account that they intended to dispute as fraudulent. Apparently, all that “free” money in the initial COVID response inspired more than a few fraudsters. I also had to make filing on a website the state AG set up to gather information from the victims.

[GOP Poet]

Wow. What a waste!

[Whyfor]

I doubt the Colorado AG will do anything. He’ll be too busy finding another reason to harass Masterpiece Bakery.

[monkeyshine]

I feel like a sucker for not cashing in on these schemes.

[Mark17]

Demonrat voters, no doubt.

Probably true, and as a result, no one will ever be held accountable.

[FreedBird]

Dead Democrat voters are getting paid for voting?

[deport]

The auditor’s report found 8,200 unduplicated claims for $73.1
million in payments between March 1, 2020 and April 30.

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Those 8,200 should be prosecuted and if guilty should spend
time in jail. Jail time for the criminals would begin the process
of changing peoples thinking about fraud. JMO

[Mark17]

Dead Democrat voters are getting paid for voting?

There are altogether too many dead people voting. 😀🙃

[CoastWatcher]

That’s DemonicRats.