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Prison inmates collect unemployment
Posted By Staff
Date: February 18th, 2013
Category: Nutty News
Pennsylvania – Philadelphia prison inmates collected unemployment benefits while sitting in their cells.
1,162 of them got an average of $344 a week for, on average, 18 weeks. That’s more than $7 million.
And many of the 25,500 inmates in other county jails in Pennsylvania did the same.
We’re talking cash for cons – tens of millions of tax dollars paid by employers and employees fraudulently scammed by incarcerated crooks.
Makes you want to get up every day, go to work and pay your taxes, right?
Well, hold on. Before you pick up torches and pitchforks, you should know that the state says such payments are ending under a program put in place by the Corbett administration, and unemployment-compensation payments to 3,000 inmates have stopped, saving up to $18 million a year. Full Article
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February 19th, 2013 at 9:33 AM
In FL anyone receiving these benefits has to certify every week or two that they are actively searching for work. To have done this in FL would be a crime. This malarkey in PA has got to be criminal fraud. I hope those incarcerated who received unemployment will be prosecuted.
February 19th, 2013 at 4:45 PM
I caught this on my own account in Kansas where they are supposed to look for work also.
The problem being that they sign up online and certify online.
The state of Kansas did nothing. Even cited their limitations under Federal law.