Audit Says 20,000 NJ Inmates Were Mistakenly Paid Millions in Benefits

$24 million in total

TRENTON — While one inmate was locked up for more than a year for a drug offense, the unemployment benefits were coming in — all $39,000, and then some.

Another serving time for unlawful possession of a weapon started receiving unemployment only after spending three months in prison, and was paid more than $25,000 over a year.

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[alan_s]

Meh. The real crime is that these benefit programs exist. But let's support these benefits and then get all outraged when they go to falsely imprisoned perpetrators of victimless crimes. These are the people, if anybody, that should be getting money from the government as compensation.