Colorado Unemployment Insurance Fraud. March 4, 2021 at 8:21 a.m. The cdle estimates that 1.2 million fraudulent claims for benefits have been filed through the state’s unemployment system, surpassing the just under 1.
Colorado is seeing a spike in unemployment fraud now that the pandemic unemployment assistance program (pua) and pandemic emergency unemployment compensation program (peuc) ended on december 26, 2020. “one letter would go to the victim of unemployment insurance fraud and one to the employer,” said cher haavind, deputy director of the cdle said during a call to. Cdle is tracking a new fraud scheme involving unemployment claims that are filed using another person's identity.