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Beth Van Duyne: “A billion dollars right now was in unemployment cards, these…”

Featuring: Beth Van Duyne, Republican | U.S. House, Texas, District 24

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Rep. Beth Van Duyne breaks down the massive scale of unemployment fraud

Published | Video Starts at 00:12

Yeah. Well, you had about $900 billion that went out in unemployment dollars, and about 135 billion of that they are suspecting was fraudulently received. Now, we know A billion dollars right now was in unemployment cards, these benefit cards that right now banks are just holding onto those dollars. They've been frozen. But if we don't act in Congress, those dollars, those funds will be brought back to the states. We need to be able to bring it back to our federal coffers. (00:12–00:21)

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Asserts that $1 billion in unemployment benefits is currently held by banks in frozen accounts.

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