The US detects a potential fraud of 45,600 million in unemployment aid

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More than 1,000 people have been

with unemployment benefits fraud since the beginning of the pandemic in the US, and authorities have identified $45.6 billion in potentially fraudulent benefits, the Labor Department supervisor announced Thursday.

The alert from the Inspector General of the Labor portfolio indicates that this money would have been delivered to individuals with a social security number registered in multiple states of the country,

, requested from suspicious email accounts or to federal prisoners.

The indictment of 1,000 people and the potential multimillion-dollar fraud

," Inspector General Larry Turner said in a statement.

In the first five months since the start of the coronavirus pandemic in March 2020,

, a joint federal and state initiative that has been the first line of action against the impact of the lack of employment.

According to the note, the injection of billions of dollars that this program received from federal funds in the midst of the epidemic gave individuals and organized criminal groups a high-level target.

Since the start of the pandemic,

for potential aid fraud, a figure more than 1,000 times higher than the usual volume.

Of the 1,000 people who have already been charged with fraud,

, the statement added, according to which these sentences add up to more than 7,000 months in prison in total.

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