Fraudsters stole more than $45 billion in unlawful unemployment claims during the pandemic, the Labor Department concluded on Thursday - while warning that the actual figure may be even higher.Criminals used inventive measures to access the COVID benefits, with more than 205,000 Social Security numbers that belonged to dead people being used to claim the cash.Some schemes saw the Social Security numbers of prisoners being used, despite them being ineligible for the unemployment benefits.
Load More
Load More