Half of pandemic unemployment money may have been stolen: report
Criminals were likely able to defraud the government by stealing personal information.
nypost.com
We agree on something.IMO, ALL of it has been stolen......from the taxpayer.
Having said all that, this article is sensationalist rubbish that contains zero facts to back up the non-specific claims. But no doubt within just a few short hours a certain segment of our population will believe it as gospel and start it trending on social media, bellowing that this is yet another reason why everybody who collects unemployment needs to pull themselves up by their bootstraps (even though they don't own boots.)
I hate this crap.
Like you just did? If you hate this crap then why be the hater?
Not exactly theft but I am hearing that bartenders are working without being on the payroll so they can collect both tips and unemployment...
100%, probably tax evasion as wellNot exactly theft but I am hearing that bartenders are working without being on the payroll so they can collect both tips and unemployment...
This isn't exactly theft either but I was in Subway last night talking to a guy who owns a small restaurant (not the Subway I was in) and he told me he is operating short handed because he has 3 employees who don't plan to come back to work until their Unemployment Compensation ends. As usual we taxpayers are the ones getting screwed...
George
My husband and I both collected unemployment for a little while last year. We tried to get the small business help, never did and had to go on unemployment. Now, the EDD wants my husband to pay back everything he collected (8 weeks) because they said they think it might have been identity fraud. Basically, they are saying that they think someone else collected the money (which isn't the case) and that he needs to pay it back because of that (makes no sense). Obviously, we are fighting it. At this point, he's still in the verifying his identity phase.
I'm annoyed by it. We are both the employer and the employees. I have all the records from both sides of the equation. There's no reason to suspect it was fraud. They can see in their own records that they sent him that he didn't receive payroll during that time. They also have everything that I verified as the employer of which weeks he wasn't paid. They already had all of that from social security records anyway. The money went to his name and then into his bank account. Addresses and contact information was never changed. I have no idea what they are doing and it seems like they don't, either. At any rate, I know that we are right and if they want to keep spending money on arguing with us about it, more power to them.
Its not future taxpayers?I'm a taxpayer and don't consider myself getting screwed at all by the enhanced unemployment benefits that were implemented to relieve the impact of COVID. The supplemental portion is temporary, and it's not the only thing that's keeping workers from returning to their jobs. Many, many parents of minors faced the closure of their daycare facilities and in many cases a requirement to pay the price for the duration or lose the spots when the facilities re-opened. Parents of school-age children were forced to leave jobs because they had no way of getting or paying for daycare to supervise their children during mandated remote learning. That's just one of the segments of society that had no choice but to collect unemployment. Food service workers are coming to terms with the fact that their wages are simply not living wages, so are rethinking their career choices. That's another segment. There are thousands across the country whose livelihoods have been forever changed due to COVID and it is not as simple as a temporary unemployment supplement being handed to them.
"As usual we taxpayers are the ones getting screwed" is such a demeaning thing to say about those suffering COVID's economic impacts to the extent that they were forced to collect unemployment, so degrading to those who've been forced to compare and contrast the realities of either staying on the rolls knowing that others don't hesitate to insult them for it, or, returning to a job that doesn't pay a living wage. You may as well just come right out and tell them how worthless they are and literally - as opposed to figuratively - kick them while they're down.
Its not future taxpayers?
"As usual we taxpayers are the ones getting screwed" is such a demeaning thing to say about those suffering COVID's economic impacts to the extent that they were forced to collect unemployment, so degrading to those who've been forced to compare and contrast the realities of either staying on the rolls knowing that others don't hesitate to insult them for it, or, returning to a job that doesn't pay a living wage.
In general I agree with you. According to the Restaurant Owner I was talking to the employees he was talking about were relative long term employees who had been laid off due to COVID. When he opened back up they told him they weren't going to come back until they had exhausted their unemployment benefits. Apparently their jobs pay a living wage or they wouldn't be coming back once they are off the public dole. If you think this is OK, more power to you. I for one think they are screwing us taxpayers...
George