ORLANDO, Fla. – Monica DaSilva is the first known Florida target of what may be an interstate plot to use a taxpayer’s identity to apply for unemployment benefits in another state.The veteran Swan and Dolphin hotel staffer told News 6 she received a letter from the state of Massachusetts that suggested she was eligible for 39 weeks of state unemployment benefits as well as federal jobless benefits.“I never applied for benefits in that state,” DaSilva said. “How in the world can someone open up an unemployment claim in my name in another state?”DaSilva is convinced there is a connection between the date of the phantom application and the recent report by the Department of Economic Opportunity that 98 people had personal data breached when.
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