Ernst Unmasks Double Dipping Bureaucrats

Full-time government employees caught claiming jobless benefits
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) is asking the Trump administration to conduct a government-wide review to put a stop to bureaucrats double dipping on the dole.
Ernst’s effort to ensure government employees are not illegally receiving unemployment benefits comes after federal and state employees have been exposed forstealingmillions of dollars of unemployment benefits while collecting a taxpayer-funded paycheck.
“It wasn’t just one or two bad apples, either. Hundreds, even thousands, of government employees appear to have been ripping off the unemployment system by claiming to be unemployed. Some of these fraudulent claims may also be the result of identity theft, like the California Employment Development Department employee who applied for and received unemployment benefits using the name of the state’s senior U.S. senator at the time,”wrote Ernst.
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Ernst is exposing some of the worst abuses by government employees, including:
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