Someone filed for unemployment benefits using my son's name. We found out about it because paperwork came here to our house, where he hasn't lived in a very long time. The paperwork showed they used his name, SSN and our address, no email and no phone number. He's had the same address since he moved out.
This happened to our older son (35) who is fully employed and working from home. As soon as I told him about this he put a freeze on all three credit bureaus and also a fraud alert. And he's checking his credit reports and hasn't seen anything questionable. He has no credit cards and no loans so he'd notice new activity. He also alerted his HR department in case anyone inquires. (If you read my posts, it was our younger son, 33, who was furloughed from his job as an audio engineer in March. He was on unemployment for about 6 weeks. His employer got a PPP loan and has called everyone back this week. Hopefully the company can survive this).
This is in Ohio where the state unemployment office was completely overwhelmed by what's gone on here. People can't get through on the phone, their website couldn't handle all the new applications and too many people are just in limbo with their legitimate claims.
There is a place on their website to report unemployment fraud but it's for people to report that someone is working while collecting unemployment. That didn't seem appropriate so he emailed them about the situation. It's been over a week with no response.
This happened to our older son (35) who is fully employed and working from home. As soon as I told him about this he put a freeze on all three credit bureaus and also a fraud alert. And he's checking his credit reports and hasn't seen anything questionable. He has no credit cards and no loans so he'd notice new activity. He also alerted his HR department in case anyone inquires. (If you read my posts, it was our younger son, 33, who was furloughed from his job as an audio engineer in March. He was on unemployment for about 6 weeks. His employer got a PPP loan and has called everyone back this week. Hopefully the company can survive this).
This is in Ohio where the state unemployment office was completely overwhelmed by what's gone on here. People can't get through on the phone, their website couldn't handle all the new applications and too many people are just in limbo with their legitimate claims.
There is a place on their website to report unemployment fraud but it's for people to report that someone is working while collecting unemployment. That didn't seem appropriate so he emailed them about the situation. It's been over a week with no response.