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Curbing unemployment fraud is essential for strong economy
June 6, 2005
Public awareness and governmental systems are the keys to maintaining the integrity of unemployment insurance programs. In an Orlando Business Journal article, Michael Alter, president of SurePayroll, emphasizes the need to begin a public discourse on the issue of unemployment insurance fraud and initiates a call to action to stop fraud "dead in its tracks." His suggestions include allocating more federal funds to state agencies to fight unemployment insurance fraud; increasing the penalties for unemployment insurance claims fraud; developing a national stolen Social Security numbers database; accelerating the launch of the National New Hire Database Initiative; and investing in fraud detection software that is specifically designed to detect and prevent unemployment insurance fraud.
Read the related article, "Curbing unemployment fraud is essential."