A potential $45,600 million aid scam charges more than 1,000 people in the U.S.

More than 1000 people were charged Unemployment benefits fraud and officials detected since the start of the pandemic in the US $45.6 billion on potentially fraudulent aid, the Department of Labor inspector said on Thursday.

Warning from the Inspector General of the portfolio of work that this money Persons with social security numbers registered in more than one state of the country, persons who have already diedrequested from suspicious email accounts or federal prisoners.

1000 indictments and potential multi-million dollar fraud “Underlines the enormity of this problem”, Inspector General Larry Turner said in a statement.

In the first five months since the outbreak began in March 2020, More than 57 million people signed up A joint federal and state initiative for the unemployment benefit program in the US that provides the first line of action against the impact of unemployment.

According to the memo, billions of dollars were injected into this program, which received federal funds amid the epidemic, given to individuals and organized crime organizations. a high target.

Since the beginning of the epidemic, US authorities 190,000 inquiries More than 1,000 times the normal volume for possible fraud in these grants.

Of the 1,000 people accused of fraud so far, they have been sentenced to prison terms. “more than 400”, added the phrase where the sum of these sentences is more than one A total of 7,000 months in prison.

Source: Informacion

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