DOGE finds thousands of fake unemployment claims

close video FOX Business Flash top headlines for April 10 Check out whats clicking on FoxBusiness.com. TheDepartment of Government Efficiency (DOGE) on Wednesday said that it discovered tens of thousands of unemployment claims for improbably old and young claimants were approved in the years after 2020. Elon Musk's group wrote in a post on X that its initial review ofunemployment insurance claims since 2020 revealed a significant number of unemployment claims from people over 115 years old and between the ages of 1 and 5.DOGE said that "24.5k people over 115 years old claimed $59M in benefits" while "28k people between 1 and 5 years old claimed $254 million in benefits" and "9.7k people with birth dates over 15 years in the future claimed $69M in benefits." It added, "In one case, someone with a birthday in 2154 claimed $41k." The Labor Department confirmed that millions of dollars in unemployment insurance went to fraudulent recipients identified by DOGE. DOGE CUTS DRIVE LAYOFFS IN MA...