$11 billion+: Unemployment money New York overpaid
New York's comptroller found at least $11 billion in pandemic unemployment overpayments, including fraud.
What happened
In November 2022, New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli's audit found at least $11 billion in unemployment overpayments during the pandemic, some of it fraud.
Why nobody caught it
- The comptroller said the exact figure was hard to pin down because the Labor Department was slow to hand over information.
How sure are we?
Paid without proof
Officially counted as paid in error or without the records to prove it was right. Some is fraud. Nobody has measured how much.
An auditor's finding of overpayments. It doesn't separate fraud from error.
Sources
- New York lost at least $11B in overpaid unemployment during the pandemic, DiNapoli saysWSHU Public Radio · Nov 15, 2022
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