I am in awe everyday at the amount of complete mess this pandemic has brought to light.

We will learn very little as all the data seems corrupt i have only seen one state go back and try to correct their official counts on death as EVERY death is counted as a covid death in many many places.

NOW due to the complete lack of foresight for FRAUD some states mine included have been overrun with fraudulent claims. SO now all the unemployment numbers are corrupted as well. I no longer believe any of the stats.
The company I work for had a ton of claims filed for current staff that were never off of work. I too had someone fill a claim using a previous name and previous address.... one may think the state will catch such glaring errors but the governor told them to side step the basic verify steps to get unemployment out ASAP. Now the state has lost millions to fraud.
I filled out the fraud claim there was actually a choice on form of " not me i am still working"

I do not think they had a chance to pay on this false claim.... but am furious that even the most basic verification would have stopped this one in its tracks.
The state would not even share the info used by fraudsters that might help the victim narrow down where their information was stolen. What job did they list as last employment? / did they have my correct SSN or did they just put random # as with other friends who had claims filed with their name but wrong SSN# ( their state shared information).

I GUESS the BONUS for those of workers and businesses exposed is we get EXTRA work to play ID theft monitoring and watching every credit file.

I think any politician and any person working in unemployment department that did not stand up and say " rushing things through and skipping verification will be a disaster" should be held liable for all the taxpayers loss in this system.
If public employees were held even partially responsible then perhaps they would DO their jobs and when suggested by idiots to circumvent the items in place to safeguard the system ... they would tell them that is a recipe for disaster.

Even if my state will not recover the millions lost i do not think the rest of taxpayers should bail out this mismanagement.

Simply put do NOT believe the NEWS who paint the picture of millions of unemployment claims i know of at least 100 false..personally so i can imagine how WRONG this data is as well.