Lansing — Michigan's Unemployment Insurance Agency recently has seen a rash of attempts to make bogus claims for unemployment checks.
The agency estimates it blocked more than 10,000 false filings over a three-day period in late July. The run on the agency "capped an eight-day stretch in late July of an elevated number of attempts" to make false claims for unemployment aid, the state agency said.
The claims were made using personal information stolen from Michigan residents and others to create claims in several different states. But the use of national databases and anti-fraud software helped to block the claims, an achievement that should serve as a "warning" to other potential criminals, UIA Director Julia Dale said.
"Our team spotted the large number of attempts right away and put a stop to any further action on these false claims," Dale said in a statement. "Thieves should know Michigan is not a state where you will get away with stealing from deserving citizens, but one where you will be caught and held accountable to the fullest extent of the law.”
Individuals or employers whose identities were used to file one of the claims may get notice that their name had been used in a fraudulent claim in the coming weeks.
Anyone who receives a verification letter from the UIA for a claim they did not submit should go to the UIA website and click on "report fraud or identity theft."
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