Beshear called the fraud of the employees ‘unacceptable’.
click to download audioThe inspector general’s report said workers in the Office of Unemployment Insurance applied for jobless benefits to which they knew that they weren’t entitled and that certain state workers filed for jobless benefits without disclosing their continued full-time state employment on their claims. Rules require all jobs and wages to be identified.
The report also said workers improperly accessed their own and friends’ jobless benefits claims in order to review them, and in some instances, override stops placed on them and help process them.
While Beshear didn’t get into specifics, he said criminal charges could happen if prosecutors decide to take up the case.