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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

 

 

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