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DEW details fraud-prevention steps and sharp rise in overpayment recoveries
Summary
DEW said it uses IP monitoring, state cross-matches and a full-time SLED agent to curb identity-theft fraud and described automated collections that increased recoveries from about $300,000 to nearly $8 million over several years.
Director Stanton told the committee the agency's integrity and overpayment-recovery efforts grew into an automated operation that substantially increased collections.
Stanton said DEW uses IP-address monitoring and information sharing with other states to detect likely identity-theft fraud and that those measures helped prevent almost $1,000,000 from being paid out. She said DEW cross-matches wage and corrections records and contracted with a vendor to receive jail lists more frequently to stop ineligible claims earlier.
On collections, Stanton described a program that moved from manual letters to automated wage‑data matching and collections; she said recoveries rose from roughly $300,000 in 2013 to over $4,000,000 in 2014 and nearly $8,000,000 in the most recent year. Stanton said DEW's posture is to retrieve funds first and prosecute only in clear fraud cases, and that the agency works with a full‑time SLED (State Law Enforcement Division) agent and the attorney general's office on prosecutions.
