Federal employees vetting the millions of applications for emergency and employment-insurance (EI) benefits during the pandemic have been told to ignore most potential cases of cheating, despite reports of widespread fraud.
If employees detect possible abuse they should still process the payment and should not refer the file to the department’s integrity branch, says a memo issued last month by Employment and Social Development Canada.
It’s unclear whether anyone would be available to investigate the questionable cases, anyway. The memo says the department has suspended “compliance and enforcement” of the EI program, which is helping manage Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) payments.
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