Last March, the Work and Welfare subcommittee held a hearing on this issue and the implications of failing to act. In his testimony, The Inspector General stated the fraud alert memos highlighted nearly a billion dollars in fraudulent unemployment benefits remain unclaimed or frozen in prepaid debit card accounts across 21 states. and that more than $200 million of funds flagged for fraud have already been transferred to state unclaimed property divisions, which will make that even harder to get back the … (02:36–02:47)
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Asserts that nearly a billion dollars in fraudulent unemployment benefits remain unclaimed or frozen across 21 states.
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