September 9, 2024 | 3:01 PM
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November 23, 2021 | 2:19 PM
8 Philadelphia police employees accused of pandemic fraud
Eight civilian Philadelphia Police Department employees have been indicted on charges of collecting Pandemic Unemployment Assistance they were not entitled to. Seven of the employees are dispatchers and one is a clerk.
July 16, 2021 | 3:30 PM
Pa. cracking down on unemployment comp fraud with new ID verification measures
Cyber criminals have been targeting public benefits across the country throughout the pandemic, harvesting personal information that has been leaked through various data breaches to file new claims on behalf of real people.
July 14, 2021 | 10:30 AM
Pa. updated its unemployment compensation system. Then cyber fraud spiked
“What Pennsylvania is seeing is very common across the country,” said James Lee, COO of the Identity Theft Resource Center.
March 3, 2021 | 5:28 AM
Victims of unemployment fraud in Pa. blindsided by tax documents
Thousands of apparent victims of Pandemic Unemployment Assistance fraud have received unexpected tax documents reporting income to the IRS they never took.
February 17, 2021 | 3:14 PM
‘This is not right’: Pennsylvanians being hit by tax bills due to unemployment fraud
Pennsylvanians – some of whom were never unemployed – are receiving tax bills due to a widespread fraud problem.
