CRIME MAY NOT PAY, BUT UNEMPLOYMENT DOES

460 Inmates collected unemployment checks in 2011

http://www.wisconsinreporter.com/wisconsin-reporter-exclusive-460-inmates-collected-unemployment-checks-in-2011-2

Wisconsin Reporter – M. D. Kittle – 7/26/2012

In September 2011, an Unemployment Insurance Division audit found 236 inmates had received unemployment checks through August 2011, overpayments that cost employers $325,000.

Unemployment compensation programs are administered by the states and funded by payroll taxes that employers pay.

The latest data obtained by Wisconsin Reporter found 406 inmates scammed unemployment benefits, costing employers $435,975.

Another $23,705 in overpayments was made to 57 other inmates, apparently by mistake, according to DWD.

In 2011, Workforce Development launched a system to cross-match benefit records against Social Security Administration records for arrests, enabling monitors to identify prisoners drawing jobless benefits to which they were not entitled.

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