The Alabama Department of Labor had inadequate verification procedures that failed to flag fraudulent claims, the report by the state Department of Examiners of Public Accounts found. Labor Department Secretary Fitzgerald Washington disputed the report.
, Labor Department Secretary Fitzgerald Washington disputed the report, claiming it “contains multiple inaccuracies and misleading data.”
“While any amount of fraud is undesirable, the simple fact of the matter is that it exists, and it exists in forms and volumes never before seen and are the direct result of the overwhelming volume of claims filed during the pandemic,” Fitzgerald’s statement continued.
The Labor Department did not have proper procedures to identify whether a claimant was in custody of the state, the report concluded. And when the agency did, according to the report, the inmate was still paid in some cases. Payments were also made to several duplicate mailing addresses, including 119 claimants who gave the address of a Maryland apartment building and 111 who claimed to reside in a Texas commercial building, the report found.
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