IRS Will Soon Require Selfies for Online Access

Re:IRS Will Soon Require Selfies for Online Access by joecool1029 on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @02:09PM (#29998490)

I have a *fat* stack of false claims sent into my company in NJ, that the burden was left on me to dispute. Finally the state paid one of these fictitious claims out to someone I have never met in NYC. I contacted my legislators about the situation, tried to get investigators to work the case, contacted the courts who sympathized but were unable to provide assistance. it is impossible to get in contact with someone anywhere to combat fraud. I ended up having to rename the company and change the structure so I would not have to pay into unemployment in the future.

Fast forward to COVID when we were requested to close for a few months and unemployment benefits were supposedly extended to freelancers, I filed for that time we were closed and it was stuck in pending status since April 2020.

I am of the opinion that unemployment insurance as it is in my state is an outright scam and should be abolished (and replaced if need be). New York and Pennsylvania had some delays, but nothing like the shit NJ has been.

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Re:IRS Will Soon Require Selfies for Online Access by 0xbadcafebee on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @02:45PM (#29998961)

That sucks, I'm sorry to hear about that. For future reference, the best way to get a politician's attention is to get on FOX News and talk shit about their pet program. It's like how people post on HN when they can't get support from FAANG.

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Re:IRS Will Soon Require Selfies for Online Access by joecool1029 on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @03:07PM (#29999250)

I mean I threw the stack down in the my one assemblyman's office and spoke about it for over an hour to him in person, he was my neighbor in the same building I worked in. But being that he's of the party that's not in power in the state, there's very little he can do.

I also requested that he co-sponsor one of the bills that greatly increases penalties for defrauding the system (it's currently pretty much a slap on the wrist).

The vast majority of Americans are entirely unaware that most of the day-to-day laws and systems are implemented at state level (aside from griping about governor's office executive orders). There's one news network that reports on our state's government affairs and hardly anyone watches it. But everyone knows the second a federal politician does something.

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Re:IRS Will Soon Require Selfies for Online Access by IG_Semmelweiss on Thursday January 20, 2022 @05:39AM (#30007155)

I remember being incredulous on finding out that a NJ company was forced to pay unemployment benefits, to a staff fired for stealing gift cards.

The staff was caught on video using the cards to buy goods.

If there is a state with a more dysfunctional Unemployment benefits office, I'd like to hear stories

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