Anonymous Conservative's daily news brief for today related quite a lot fraud and shenanigans going on in our country, including new allegations of fake ballots being counted, but the story about unemployment benefits fraud in Maryland caught my attention. From Fox 45 News: "Audit exposes $760 million in uncollectable overpayments, state officials point fingers." The article relates:
Thousands of Maryland residents have received letters from the Maryland Department of Labor demanding repayment of unemployment insurance overpayments.
Gina Cross received a letter demanding $250; however, Cross insists she's never applied for unemployment benefits.
"I've been working the same place since 2018," Cross, who believes she's a victim of identity theft, said.
A recent state audit revealed that over the past five years, Maryland has issued millions in overpayments to individuals who should not have received them. The audit stated, "The state did not timely pursue recovery of claimant overpayments totaling $807.4 million resulting in up to $760.7 million that is no longer collectable." It also noted that the Department of Unemployment Insurance (DUI) lacked procedures for supervisory reviews of claims, potentially allowing fraudulent activity to go undetected.
That's $760,700,000 from just one government program. How many others are out there? When Musk says that fraud accounts for $1 trillion per year of the federal budget, he may be being optimistic.
Fraud. Everywhere. Fraud.
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