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Topic: Labor Dept. Reports $5 Billion
in ´Improper´ Unemployment
Insurance Payments |
Labor Dept. Reports $5 Billion
in ´Improper´ Unemployment
Insurance Payments
Cybercast News Service, by Penny Starr
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Original Article
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Posted By:KarenJ1, 1/10/2013 7:32:23 PM
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| The U.S. Labor Department´s website includes a database that shows $5,159,629,434 in improper unemployment insurance payments for all 50 states, U.S. territories and the District of Columbia for the period July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2012. The database also shows that 2.85 percent, or $1.28 billion, of the total unemployment insurance payments ($45.2 billion) in that timeframe were the result of fraud. (See here and click on XLS sheet for “2012 Calendar Year data.”) On the “browse by topic” section of the Department of Labor website is a link for
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Comments:
This is probably just the tip of the iceberg. What is going on in this government is absolutely criminal. No wonder we are going bankrupt. Does this have anything to do with Solis resigning?
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
KTWO, 1/10/2013 7:37:04 PM (No. 9109811)
Not to worry, that is only one day of deficit.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
TXknitter, 1/10/2013 8:01:38 PM (No. 9109839)
Incompetence is a rewarded and enshrined RIGHT when you are a government bureaucrat. This will be barely mentioned by main stream "journalists." Hilda Solis - why is she not being held accountable??
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Th-Gr-Sil-Majority, 1/10/2013 8:04:45 PM (No. 9109846)
...should get some maps and names posted please...let the neighbors know...
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Crosscut, 1/10/2013 8:42:07 PM (No. 9109899)
If the Feds would stop extending unemployment benefits a whole lot of these folks would just get off their butts and go back to work.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Davids918, 1/10/2013 9:30:54 PM (No. 9109945)
I suggest the House cut the Labor Department´s budget by $5 billion since they don´t need it.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
ColonialAmerican1623, 1/10/2013 10:05:44 PM (No. 9109974)
$5 million would have been bad enough, but that´s $5 billion with a B.
But hey, let´s cut funding to Medicare, Social Security and the military.
Not part of the fiscal cliff ?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
BaseballFan, 1/10/2013 11:01:53 PM (No. 9110036)
What was it Nancy Pelosi said?
“Unemployment checks are the fastest way to create jobs.”
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
oh-heck, 1/10/2013 11:10:11 PM (No. 9110043)
If they have proven the 5 Billion was improper and gotten the return of half, you have to believe that they missed at least 3 times as much. If this is their record on a $45 billion program, whats going on the really big programs like Social Security or Medicare? And what is the penalty for someone who steals 100,000 from the People?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Trigger2, 1/11/2013 5:16:05 AM (No. 9110182)
NY certainly wasn´t a piker. They took nearly a quarter billion in 3 years. But then, NY is run by demonrats and fraud is their brand name.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
civilservant, 1/11/2013 10:48:24 AM (No. 9110666)
In order to rid Government of waste, fraud and abuse, one must FIRST get rid of.....
Government.
Government as envisioned by the liberals IS waste, fraud and abuse.
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