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Fri Oct 23, 2020, 07:36 AM Oct 2020

350K debit cards for unemployment benefits frozen in California over fraud fears, officials say

Faced with a deluge of fraudulent unemployment claims, California officials said Thursday that 350,000 of the debit cards they issued containing benefits have been frozen because of suspicious activity, including a high number of claims at a single address.
“The Department’s top priority is to quickly verify the identity of any claimants in this group that may have been impacted by scammer attacks, while we work to shut down the potentially fraudulent claims,” the agency said in a statement Thursday.

The scope of the potential fraud has alarmed some state officials. But Assemblyman David Chiu (D-San Francisco) said he is also concerned that people in desperate need of unemployment benefits are also seeing their valid claims held up.

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350K debit cards for unemployment benefits frozen in California over fraud fears, officials say (Original Post) quaint Oct 2020 OP
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