Five were sentenced to jail for up to 30 days. One conviction came on a felony forgery charge, with theft making up the other 55 convictions. At the same time, we will continue to take aggressive action against those who unlawfully try to take money from the system. The Employment Department uses a computer cross-match system to detect fraud. The system compares records of individuals collecting unemployment benefits with employers' payroll tax records.
Potential fraud is detected when the same person appears on both records for the same time period.
Those collecting unemployment benefits are limited in how much they may earn while continuing to collect unemployment benefits.