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Here’s your unemployment update for Saturday, March 27th, 2021

A Los Angeles man allegedly obtains $3 million in state unemployment benefits using the identities of 23 inmates.

The man allegedly submitted at least 400 fraudulent claims with the California Economic Development Department from March 30th to Sept. 8th, 2020.

At least 120 of those claims were filed under the names of inmates incarcerated in California prisons.

The agency stated, “EDD continues to partner with federal, state, and local authorities in fighting the work of scammers sitting on a treasure trove of stolen identity information from the dark web.”

According to the Bay Area News Group, the state agency paid $10.4 billion to claimants with unverified identities and $810 million to prison inmates.

We hope the department continues to crack down on fraud and finds a way to get these much-needed funds back.

Meanwhile, the Nevada Department of Employment, Training, and Rehabilitation is proposing an emergency resolution that would provide unemployment insurance to education support…