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373,000 possibly fraudulent unemployment claims filed in Texas during pandemic The Texas Workforce Commission has paid out about $577 million to suspicious unemployment claims made between March 2019 and March 2020. Credit: KVUE One victim of unemployment fraud in Texas has kept a folder of all her correspondence with the Texas Workforce Commission, showing months of her unsuccessfully trying to notify them of the issue. Author: Brad Streicher (KVUE) Updated: 2:31 AM CDT April 29, 2021 AUSTIN, Texas The Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) says possibly more than 350,000 fraudulent unemployment benefit claims have been filed between March 2020 and March 2021. But some Texans facing the aftermath of identity theft also now have to deal with TWC telling them they need to pay back money they never even got in the first place. ....