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'Hundreds of millions’ in bogus jobless benefits paid out

by Associated Press
| May 21, 2020 5:27 PM

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Impostors have used the stolen information of tens of thousands of people in Washington to fraudulently receive hundreds of millions of dollars in unemployment benefits, the head of the state’s Employment Security Department said Thursday.

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