‘Surprising And Shocking’: IDES Told To Get Help From Labor Department About Fraud Claims – CBS2 (Chicago)

The Office of the Inspector General that’s been auditing the issue released an urgent alert Monday. It identified four main sources of unemployment fraud: People filing claims in many states, using Social Security numbers of the dead or belonging to state and federal inmates and claims filed from suspicious email accounts. Illinois has seen fraud that fits into at least two of those categories.
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Illinois Entrepreneur
5 years ago

At my address I have received multiple IDES “responses” to unemployment claims from various people. At least four envelopes came to my address with prepaid debit cards ready for spending. I did not open them, but I could see and feel what was in the envelope. There are so many coming through my business and at my home address that I can’t keep up. Knowing IDES, I don’t dare call them — I don’t have hours of a day to waste. What a terribly run agency, to have an infrastructure and security that is so poor that these basic scams… Read more »

NB-Chicago
5 years ago

Where’s Kwame???

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