Posted on 02/06/2012 2:15:30 PM PST by posterchild
WASHINGTON (AP) About 90 District of Columbia workers have been suspended and may be fired after officials determined they received unemployment checks while holding city jobs.
The Washington Post reports Monday that another 60 former D.C. workers have cashed unemployment checks they were not entitled to.
Lisa Mallory is director of the city's Department of Employment Services. She says the city has paid about $800,000 in unemployment benefits to working city employees since 2009 (http://wapo.st/yEm9Iw ).
Mallory says some employees received as much as $20,000. Others received a few hundred dollars.
The fraud is not complicated. Mallory says people simply show they aren't receiving income even when they are.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
Who would have imagined that a city government would report their employees income? /s
Sounds like more of “Holder’s people.”
Will they get unemployment if they’re fired?................
So there is absolutely no cross checking. How do they show they aren't receiving income? Perhaps by not showing their pay stub. What a system.
I imagine obamma will give all a pass on this.
But, of course, they just have to show they aren’t receiving any money. Simple.
Congress has control of the purse strings so Boehner will give them a pass.
” Sounds like more of Holders people. “
I felt guilty, but I thought the same.
I know it’s not all...probably a very small minority...but still, there appears to be an “attitude” there that I simply no longer will tolerate.
Well, we can’t just leave them to experience the consequences of their own fraud...
Of course. Along with free medical, housing, childcare, etc. Good times!!!
I guess in depth interview skills are lacking by however did the reporting. Seems a lot of important information missing here.
“the city has paid about $800,000 in unemployment benefits to working city employees since 2009”
First off “working city employee” is an oxymoron. Almost none of the DC employees do any actual work.
Second, these are the same people who want to control the economy. They can’t even figure out how to pay unemployment. This has been going on since at least 1999, probably a lot longer.
If people realized how much taxpayer money is being stolen by government employees they would be amazed..
“About 90 District of Columbia workers have been suspended and may be fired after officials determined they received unemployment checks while holding city jobs.”
You would think they would be doing jail time... But they “may” be fired?
“Oh, I thought you asked if I had any earnings.
These aren’t earnings, this is just money I get from the government.
I didn’t earn nothing!”
“Oh, I thought you asked if I had any earnings.
These aren’t earnings, this is just money I get from the government.
I didn’t earn nothing!”
This is why I miss Marion S. Barry. He would never had tolerated this level of corruption.
” Will they get unemployment if theyre fired?................ “
Could be a bit of a thorny legal problem here —
If ‘unemployment’ is equated with ‘not working’, and ‘working’ is not the first descriptive term that comes to mind regarding city drones, then aren’t they, by definition, unemployed??
Apparently DC does not define ‘unemployed’ the same as the real world.
Their definition seems to center around ‘receiving money’, whether you worked for it or not.
That way, drug dealers and prostitutes are covered............theoretically......
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