Individual Fraud
Examples of claimant/worker fraud include:
- Providing false information to obtain unemployment benefits
- Returning to full-time work but continuing to receive unemployment benefits
- Working part-time but not reporting gross earnings to the State, thereby collecting more benefits than allowed
Consequences of claimant unemployment insurance fraud may include:
- Repaying benefits received
- 15% penalty based on the amount of the overpayment
- Losing eligibility to receive benefits now and in the future
- Forfeiting state and federal income tax refunds
- Criminal charges, jail time, felony or misdemeanor conviction