[onewhippedpuppy]

It was rampant in KS this year too, I know a number of fully employed people who supposedly made claims despite being fully employed. Now even worse is they are getting tax forms for the fraudulent unemployment money that they didn’t even receive. I’m not sure how to fix it, obviously there needs to be far better controls in place for verification instead of taking the Oprah “you get a car” mindset of just handing out money to everybody.

One other thought I’ve had, there has been a big disconnect in my mind between the supposedly huge unemployment rate over the last year and the number of people building new houses, buying new cars, boats, RVs, vacation condos, etc. It just hasn’t added up. But if every state has hundreds of thousands of fraudulent unemployment claims then that would artificially inflate the actual numbers and make things look worse than they really are.