Additional tips on spotting fraud as well as other key information can be found in this press release from an event held by L&I and Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General (OAG) Chief Deputy Attorney General Brian Zarallo. Common signs that a fraudulent unemployment claim has been filed in an individual's name include the individual receiving notification that a claim has been opened, as well as the individual's employer receiving notice of the opened claim. L&I is also working with these agencies, the federal Department of Labor, and other states to identify and block new fraud methods to thwart attempts by fraudsters. The Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry (L&I) continues to work together with this task force, as well as other partners, including law enforcement agencies, the state treasury and the state attorney general, to identify fraud cases and hold those responsible accountable. Department of Homeland Security-Office of Inspector General, and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, Social Security Administration-Office of the Inspector General, and the U.S. Department of Labor-Office of Inspector General, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Homeland Security Investigations, Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation, U.S. This task force brings together multiple agencies including the U.S. To combat this national fraud issue, the federal Department of Justice established the National Unemployment Insurance Fraud Task Force. This USA Today article describes how hackers get someone's personal and confidential data from attacks on private companies and they often sell the information to scammers using the dark web.
The recent attention for the new unemployment system for UC and PEUC as well as increased fraud detection mechanisms in the new system had led to an increased amount of discovered fraud attempts within these two programs." While many types of fraud have existed throughout the history of UC, such as providing false wages, the recent increase in fraud attempts are tied to leaks of personal and confidential data, like Social Security numbers, from sources outside of state government.
The increased availability of funding for other programs, such as the additional $300 per week provided by the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC) program, has also attracted fraudsters to attempt to file fraudulent claims within the Unemployment Compensation (UC) program and its extension, Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC).
The majority of this fraud is within the federal Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) program created by Congress and launched more than a year ago. "Every state has dealt with increased unemployment benefit fraud for more than a year since the beginning of the pandemic. The PA Department of Labor and Industry issued this statement to Action News : "If you've used another federal government or state government service that utilizes ID.me, please login using the same information that you use with that agency," said Berrier.
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Meantime, Pennsylvania says its current backlog of claims is under 300,000 and has advice for people experiencing issues with the identity verification system, ID.me.
"These fraudsters are not hacking into Labor & Industry systems and there is no breach of Labor and Industry's' new unemployment compensation system," said Secretary Jennifer Berrier with the Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry on Wednesday.īut the secretary provided no explanation for the spike in fraud complaints since the new system was installed. You can also see if your email or phone number was exposed in a data breach by going to this website.
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