Report Unemployment Fraud
Unemployment insurance fraud is a crime. You can report instances of unemployment fraud by phone, email, fax, or mail. Your name can be kept confidential.
Unemployment Insurance Fraud can include:
- unemployment claimants misrepresenting information to qualify for unemployment benefits
- State Laws and Rules concerning Unemployment Benefit Fraud
- employer manipulation of unemployment experience rating to obtain a lower tax rate than their unemployment experience would otherwise allow (known as SUTA dumping)
- employer misclassification of employees as "independent contractors" to avoid payment of unemployment taxes.
- employer misreporting of worker wages to avoid payment of unemployment taxes.
Phone Tips:
- Call the Benefits Division at (207) 621-5100 or the Unemployment Claim Center at 1-800-593-7660.
Email, fax, or mail:
- Opening this form (“WORD” format) and completing it. Save the completed form if you intend to e-mail it to us. Print the completed form if you intend to fax or mail it to us:
- Fax the completed form to (207) 287-8351; or
- Mail the completed form to:
Bureau of Unemployment Compensation
Attn: Jerry Parent
47 State House Station
Augusta, ME 04333-0047
