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Originally Posted by 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.
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That's pretty much the same thing my accountant told me. A lot of his clients are receiving the tax form for benefits but they were not unemployed and did not collect. Oddly enough, a lot of the people he spoke of were self employed. How the hell does the state miss that? You'd think we'd have something crossing benefits and tax filings. If the person applying for benefits files a schedule C...
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Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy
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.
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I know what you mean. I've been saying the same thing. Where is all this money coming from?