Pritzker administration failed to report unemployment fraud data – Illinois Policy

Illinois lost over half of its pandemic unemployment funds to fraud, according to a state audit. The U.S. Department of Labor criticized Illinois for failing to report data on fraudulent pandemic unemployment payments, stating future fraud is hard to prevent when past fraud isn’t tracked.
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Freddy
1 year ago

Too busy updating endless mandates.

Riverbender
1 year ago

Well…will charges be filed or is it just more paper being pushed around?

Giddyap
1 year ago
Ex Illini
1 year ago

First three words the headline captured it beautifully.

ger42
1 year ago

Another disaster for this LOL governor JB. At one of JB’s covid updates he boasted about the state using not 1, not 2, but 3 of the top consulting firms to help with pandemic tax dollars to help the unemployed and refused Federal help. Not to mention the Federal government would pay for that of course with our tax dollars. Now he tries to blame the Federal government for lack of guidance. For the people who needed that money remember what this Moron did to you! For the taxpayer’s who have to foot all these bills remember JB’s LOL at… Read more »

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