The Office of the State Inspector General (OIG) has submitted to the Governor a summary of its recent efforts to combat unemployment insurance (UI) fraud within Georgia’s public workforce. As further detailed in the letter, by combining data obtained from the State Accounting Office (SAO) and the U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Inspector General, OIG tentatively identified over 280 full-time state employees who erroneously received unemployment insurance (UI) payments in 2020 or 2021. These payments averaged $23,700 per employee and totaled over $6.7 million.
To further combat this issue, OIG offers several recommendations:
- The General Assembly should explore legislation that extends the statute of limitations for prosecuting pandemic-related fraud.
- The General Assembly must pass legislation that grants OIG administrative subpoena authority.
- The Georgia Department of Labor and SAO should coordinate quarterly to ensure that state employees have not submitted inaccurate or fraudulent UI applications that omit full or part-time employment with the state.
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Juanita Griffin Mathis
January 4, 2023 at 6:10 pm
SO WHAT’S GOING TO HAPPEN? WILL THE CLAIMANTS GET THEIR BENEFITS DUE TO GDOL EMPLOYEES TAKING FROM THE CLAIMANTS??
Connie Smith
January 6, 2023 at 12:16 am
So could this be part of the reason why UI claims that I helped my brother file from layoffs during the pandemic around this time were never processed and we could never get any kind of response by phone or email. And the local office was closed and giving out papers with the number to call but nothing seem to work.