Posted on 04/18/2012 9:59:03 AM PDT by massmike
Massachusetts has lost more than $90 Million paying out unemployment benefits to people cheating the system. Since 2008, the Bay State has written checks to unemployed residents, totaling $6.5 Billion. This does not include the extended benefits from the Federal Government.
Michelle Amante, Acting Director of Labor and Workforce Development said, “We have the lowest overpayment rate in the country, meaning we shouldn’t have made a payment to them or overpaid them.”
Amante said Massachusetts’ overpayment rate is 1.4%, while the National average is 2.51%. But even that small percentage of six billion dollars works out to be about 90 million dollars, that has been paid out in unemployment fraud in the last three years.
It is also unclear if that low rate is even really accurate because it is hard to track people collecting unemployment and working under the table.
(Excerpt) Read more at golocalworcester.com ...
Yeah, and voter fraud is a non-problem, and any attempt to combat it is racist.
Here we go again thinking that that money is “lost”. It bought votes for Democrats. It wasn’t lost.
So did they act to get that 90 million back from the fraudsters or just tally the stat and shrug?
Article says they want help from the public to identify fraudsters. But it doesn’t appear that they publish the names and addresses of those receiving compensation.
How much of that was to Obama’s aunts and uncles?
trows = grows
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