A security firm investigating California’s fraudulent pandemic unemployment claims warned that the scope of the fraud could be more than twice as much as previously estimated.
At least 10 percent of unemployment claims before the state Employment Development Department (EDD) installed controls last October may have been fraudulent, according to Blake Hall, founder and chief executive of the company ID.me., the Los Angeles Times reported. Hall’s company was hired by the EDD in October and has blocked nearly 470,000 phony claims since.
