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标题：Unemployment Insurance: Payments, Overpayments and Unclaimed Benefits
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作者：David L. Fuller ; B. Ravikumar ; Yuzhe Zhang 等
期刊名称：Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - Regional Economist
出版年度：2012
出版社：Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
摘要：
Overpayments in the U.S. unemployment insurance system have received increasing attention of late. For example, CNN.com cited a recent study by the Department of Labor in reporting that 11 percent of all unemployment benefits were overpaid.1 Vice President Joe Biden, charged with leading the Campaign to Cut Waste, said: "Unemployment checks are going to people in prison. Unemployment checks are going to graveyards."