Se as Castlégar News November 30, 1986 UIC cheated out of $60 million last year It's the first time that OTTAWA (CP) — Can adians cheated the unemploy Forget commission recom- mendation that policing of ment insurance system of unemployment insurance almost $60 million last year, payments be i . of which only just more than The headed half was recovered, figures in by economist Claude Forget, the latest annual Public Ac- is expected to release its figures for earlier years and they should be available later this week, he said. Fix said most lost money is eventually recovered. system. cases of organized fraud be But leaked copies of parts given more attention.” figures giving overall losses of a draft of the report indi- In the fiscal year ending {rom unemployment insur- cate the commission will March 31, 1986, there were ance frauds have been com- d that “the invest- 180,458 incidents of fraud re- piled and presented on a igative units (of the Un- sulting in unemployment in. natinal basis, said commis- The latest figures also employment Insurance Com- surance of sion spoki Richard Fix. show that 122,899 penalties counts of Canada show. report soon on ways to im- mission) be enhanced.” $59.9 million, of which $32.3 Commission officials have totalling $16.6 million were Publication of the ‘losses prove the $12-billion-a-year The report will also re- million was recovered, the been working over the last levied under the Unemploy- should add weight to a unemployment insurance “that public Act last year and that 4,975 fraud cases were successfully prose cuted, with most resulting in fines, totalling just under $3 million. 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