HARRISBURG – The PA Department of Labor & Industry announced that it has resolved more than 26,000 pandemic-era Unemployment Compensation fraud reports in the first six months of the Shapiro Administration. In addition to the record-breaking spike in Unemployment Compensation claims over the past three years,t he department also received an unprecedented number of fraud reports. Since the start of the Shapiro Administration in January, the Labor Department has resolved more than three-quarters of the roughly 34,000 fraud reports that remained. At the end of June, the number of outstanding fraud reports totaled 7,863. PA Labor Department Secretary Nancy Walker says her department fought back by implementing new security measures and working with partners in law enforcement to hold fraudsters accountable.
