[HN Gopher] $100M in Jobless Claims Went to Inmates
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       $100M in Jobless Claims Went to Inmates
        
       Author : wglb
       Score  : 23 points
       Date   : 2021-02-25 22:29 UTC (30 minutes ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (krebsonsecurity.com)
        
       | groby_b wrote:
       | Wherein, to save $100M, we pay much more to a private company[1],
       | and in the process sidestep the question of a federal ID database
       | by instead selling it out to a private vendor.
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       | I can't wait to hear when they get hacked, and they have to give
       | out free ID monitoring for a year to make up for it.
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       | [1] VA alone pays $12M/year:
       | https://www.fedhealthit.com/2019/05/va-awards-62m-task-for-i...
        
       | williesleg wrote:
       | They need it. Let's get bezos and cook to give their money to
       | inmates too. Rough life.
        
       | jrochkind1 wrote:
       | How long until id.me gets hacked and all those scanned licenses
       | get released...
        
       | bpodgursky wrote:
       | Still a small fraction of the at least $11B in fraud CA alone
       | paid out https://thehill.com/homenews/news/535796-california-
       | official...
        
       | jeffbee wrote:
       | Is that a lot? People who want to whine about these types of
       | errors need to show that making it more accurate is worth the
       | trouble. It's been long-known that compliance with federal income
       | taxes is only about 88%, dollar-wise, but there isn't a flood of
       | intentionally misleading blogging about that, even though the
       | amount at stake is greater.
        
       | boomboomsubban wrote:
       | As the article immediately states, that $100 million is a tiny
       | amount of unemployment fraud, and money going to inmates is not a
       | vital part of the article. Why is it the headline? $100 millim
       | going to inmates is more shocking than California had $11 billion
       | in unemployment fraud last year?
        
       | csours wrote:
       | Is this an ad? It reads like an ad. I imagine that imprisonment
       | and joblessness is highly correlated. At what point in time is
       | this illegal? A lot of people in jail are not convicted, and a
       | lot more are not convicted of felonies.
        
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