ver 82% of claims flagged and investigated in Maryland have been confirmed as fraudulent, the state’s Department of Labor announced in an update.
In what Gov. Larry Hogan described last July as a “massive, sophisticated criminal enterprise,” scammers attempted to use stolen identities to submit fraudulent unemployment claims worth around $501 million from the state’s unemployment insurance system.
In a news release Wednesday, the state’s labor department said that of some 102,000 out-of-state claims that have been identified as potentially fraudulent, 91% have either not uploaded required verification documents or their documents were reviewed and denied.
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