Michigan paid up to $8.5B in fraudulent unemployment claims, report shows [View all]

The state of Michigan paid up $8.5 billion in potentially fraudulent claims from the beginning of the pandemic in 2020 to September of this year, according to a report released Wednesday.

According to an audit for the state's Unemployment Insurance Agency (UIA) carried out by the firm Deloitte, between March 2020 and September 2021, the state paid approximately $8.4-8.51 billion in possibly fraudulent claims.

The report also found that out of $52.2 billion in attempted fraudulent claims, the UAI prevented the release of $43.7 billion dollars to fraudsters.

However, they did not succeed in stopping bad actors from retrieving the remaining amount, according to the firm.

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