Via US Department of Labor
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced it will conduct a targeted review of Minnesota’s Unemployment Insurance Program using an onsite specialized UI strike team following recent discoveries of widespread fraud in the state’s benefits programs.
In a letter sent to the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development, the department noted concerns that recent reports of fraud, waste, and abuse might compromise the integrity of their UI program. The discoveries span several benefits programs, including Minnesota’s Federal Child Nutrition Program, Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention Autism Program, and Housing Stability Services Program.
“I am appalled at what we are hearing about potential fraud coming from numerous benefits programs in Minnesota. If there has been any related abuse of our UI systems, it will not be tolerated, and I trust our specialized strike team to get to the bottom of this and report their findings directly to me,” said Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer. “Our mission to protect American workers remains unchanged, and I will not allow malicious actors to destroy the integrity of this trusted program.”
The department’s Employment and Training Administration’s Chicago regional office today informed them of an onsite review of its Benefit Payment Control operations and integrity functions, with a specific focus on ensuring fraud, waste, and abuse identified in Minnesota’s state programs is not present in the UI or the pandemic UI programs.
The letter also requested the state provide critical documents to the department’s UI strike team, which is made up of staff from ETA’s national and regional offices.
More potential fraud??? Imagine what a perverse board game just the fraud that’s already been confirmed in the state could make–play Get on the Gravy Train! Try to become the player who can swindle the most government money in order to buy jewelry, expensive vacations, luxury vehicles, property here and abroad, and amass fat savings accounts.
How much fraud has been actually confirmed? We’ve already seen one judgment overturned. Seems that “receiving benefits while Somali” isn’t a crime, unlike what the people who read Alpha News and think Ilhan Omar married her brother may believe.
I wonder if this is a fishing exhibition due to other MN frauds or if the feds have a lead of an issue with MN UI?
If it’s a fishing expedition, the odds are high they’ll catch a boat full.
They’re going to attack only Democratic run states. Corruoy Republican states like Florida and Texas won’t be touched.
Of course it is. The nonsense from Joe Thompson last Thursday puts the “con” in “press conference”. All of the charges that weren’t just Trump-pleasing MAGA hot air ($9 billion my ass) were much smaller incidents that the USA office has been prosecuting before he arrived.
Be interesting to see if his qualifications are as thin as Rachel Paulose’s were under GW Bush – or Alina Habba’s, Eagle Ed Martin’s, Lindsey Halligan’s, Juicebox Jeannie Pirro’s, Bill Essayli’s, etc. under Trump.