12 Apr 2025 3:15 pm
I'm kicking your cowardly *** from thread to thread...*Huey » 7 minutes ago » wrote: ↑ Paywall. Post what's relevant.
Oh, and you are stil chasing me from thread to thread. Too **** funny.
I'll check later to see if you posted anything relevant.
Nod, Sackless.
The issue dates to early in the pandemic when millions of Americans surged onto state unemployment rolls in an unprecedented expansion of the safety net. The emergency aid program enacted during President Trump’s first term was also susceptible to fraud. As many as 15 percent of unemployment claims were fraudulent, often using stolen identities.
To preserve records of that fraud and protect victims of the identity theft, the U.S. Labor Department encouraged state agencies that administer unemployment benefits to create “pseudo claim” records — in effect, to tie real cases of fraud in their data to make-believe people. The implausibility of the records was the point. Agencies were seeking a way to keep track of fraud claims while detaching them from the identities of innocent people who might one day apply for unemployment benefits themselves.
Now four years later, Mr. Musk and his team appear to have found those make-believe people. Their claims about them were also repeated by Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-deRemer during a cabinet meeting at the White House on Thursday.
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