Pennsylvania's recent upgrade to the unclaimed property system in Harrisburg, which hadn't been done for 15 years, has returned more than $20 million worth of items to their rightful owners.
With many people having yet to return to work since the pandemic shut the country down, Pennsylvania has continued to see a rise in fraudulent unemployment claims, according to the Department of Labor and Industry and the Pennsylvania State Police.
Hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvanians are staying unemployed despite more than half being at least partially vaccinated and the state only weeks from reopening.