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It Took Washington 2 Months to Stop Unemployment Claim Fraud
Governing: Revelations last week that this spring’s $576 million unemployment fraud, the largest in state history, started much earlier than previously acknowledged have spurred a storm of new questions over the handling of the crime.
Data released Aug. 3 by the state Employment Security Department (ESD) shows that criminals were filing fake claims in the first week of March. That’s more than two months before ESD publicly disclosed the fraud and temporarily froze benefit payments, in mid-May, by which time a staggering 56 percent of the weekly claims ESD was paying were from criminals, many of them reportedly overseas.
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