With a high influx of COVID-related jobless claims, hackers found it easy to scam state unemployment benefit systems. But tracking down the illegitimate payments is a slow and frustrating process.
For the duration of the pandemic in California, it has been relatively easy for scammers, even those who are operating from prison, to receive unemployment benefits under false pretenses.
A North County woman who took part in a scheme to use prison and jail inmates' personal information to fraudulently obtain unemployment benefits was sentenced today to two years of probation, which includes about four months of home confinement.
A North County woman who took part in a scheme to use prison and jail inmates' personal information to fraudulently obtain unemployment benefits was sentenced.
The state got defrauded out of at least $20 billion in pandemic unemployment benefits. More than a year later, there is little hope much of the money can be recovered.