Dep’t of Labor Reports More Than $5 Billion in ‘Improper’ Unemployment Insurance Payments

Posted on January 10, 2013 by Cowboy Byte

The U.S. Department of Labor’s website includes a database that shows the total dollar amount of improper payments of unemployment insurance benefits for all 50 states, U.S. territories and the District of Columbia, which totaled $5,159,629,434 from July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2012.  The database also shows that 2.85 percent, or $1.28 billion, of the total unemployment insurance payments ($45.2 billion) in that timeframe were the result of fraud. (See here and click on XLS sheet for “2012 Calendar Year data.”)  To Read More.....