Tennessee's Dead Collecting Unemployment Checks

[Initech]

People are dying to get unemployment benefits in Tennessee.

Since July 2011, for instance, at least seven people who had died were issued unemployment checks by the state of Tennessee, to the tune of about $12,000 in unemployment payments.

But it’s not just the deceased that a state audit found were being paid benefits by the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development. It also found that 24 state employees were getting paid unemployment benefits — while still working for the state of Tennessee.

http://www.tennessean.com/article/20130405/NEWS21/304050094/TN-sent-unemployment-checks-dead?nclick_check=1

Tennessee's Dead would make a great name for a jam band.

[TxDemChem]

1. That would be a great name

I wonder if their survivors know about the checks. Clearly the state employees must know it's illegal.

[Bette]

2. what?

I bet the states employees aren't being paid enough to care, or to bother to check. Maybe they don't know about cross referencing. I wonder how many of those recipients happen to be republicons? Just a thought...

[TxDemChem]

3. I didn't want to throw it out there, but....

I too wondered how many are repugs.