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News 3 investigators have learned the multi-million dollar unemployment scam being investigated throughout Virginia prisons may have led to Governor Ralph Northam’s denial of some promising pardon applications. ....
Former Virginia inmate allegedly filed fake unemployment claims for 5 other inmates It aggravates the hell out of me, says man waiting for unemployment since mid-December Back in June, the Virginia Employment Commission began reviewing unemployment claims to look for ones that might be fraudulent, and now they believe they unknowingly paid 40 million dollars to ineligible prisoners, while thousands of others who were eligible waited. As an urgent economic crisis unfolded throughout the country, the VEC rushed to get benefits out to hundreds of thousands of Virginians who were suddenly out of work because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Among those workers, people who did not traditionally qualify for unemployment but now did under the CARES act: independent contractors, self-employed people, and freelancers. According to a federal complaint, these applicants had no wage history with the state, so the state had to trust what they wrote on their applications and paid them im ....