Tagged: Washington Employment Security Department

6:00am

Fri July 29, 2011
Jobless benefits

State nabbing innocent job seekers in unempoyment crackdown?

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Recently, Washington's Employment Security Department sent out a news release announcing it had identified 9,000 people in 2010 who were not actively seeking work. The state said the individuals would have to pay back $23 million in benefits.

But those claims of jobless benefit fraud may be overstated.

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