A legislative auditor’s report finds the state Division of Employment and Financial Improvement is falling brief on detecting fraud in Minnesota’s Unemployment Insurance coverage program, both by impostors or by identification theft. Republican Consultant Rod Hamilton from Mountain Lake says:
“The very first suggestion that the Auditor put within the report was, the legislature might contemplate requiring DEED to report regularly about fraud within the U-I program.”
DEED officers says a drastic enhance in U-I purposes in the course of the pandemic strained their skill to carry out commonplace fraud prevention and detection processes. Hamilton says the division ought to have essential instruments and sources.