http://www.hrbenefitsalert.com/the-no-1-source-of-benefits-reimbursement-fraud/ Daily dose of benefits news and know-how Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:30:38 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 http://www.hrbenefitsalert.com/the-no-1-source-of-benefits-reimbursement-fraud/comment-page-1/#comment-1342 GAry Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:53:36 +0000 http://www.hrbenefitsalert.com/?p=115#comment-1342 This article leaves a very distorted view of the report that it refers to. The report does not in any way indicate fraud on the part of anyone in the Payroll / HR department. The fraud was perpetrated by a supervisor at an operating level. This type of fraud is very difficult to stop; no matter how good your HR department is, if your employees are not diligent in checking their pay stubs and W-2s to see that they tie to their actual receipts. In this case, the employee was somewhat to blame for not paying attention to their records and noticing the discrepancies. You should probably read more than the first line of a report before using it in an attack on HR personnel. In the report you cite, it is nearly impossible to assess blame to anyone in the HR department for this fraud. This article leaves a very distorted view of the report that it refers to. The report does not in any way indicate fraud on the part of anyone in the Payroll / HR department. The fraud was perpetrated by a supervisor at an operating level. This type of fraud is very difficult to stop; no matter how good your HR department is, if your employees are not diligent in checking their pay stubs and W-2s to see that they tie to their actual receipts. In this case, the employee was somewhat to blame for not paying attention to their records and noticing the discrepancies. You should probably read more than the first line of a report before using it in an attack on HR personnel. In the report you cite, it is nearly impossible to assess blame to anyone in the HR department for this fraud.

]]> http://www.hrbenefitsalert.com/the-no-1-source-of-benefits-reimbursement-fraud/comment-page-1/#comment-115 Venus Thu, 22 May 2008 18:28:54 +0000 http://www.hrbenefitsalert.com/?p=115#comment-115 I suppose fraud is a fact of life, but as a payroll administrator I take umbrage at your implication that the payroll department is one of the biggest the sources. I read the report you cited and read that the payroll department was not the problem, but the local account manager who was responsible for disbursing paychecks and notifying of terminated employees. It was the Payroll department rather, that identified the fraud not committed it! I suppose fraud is a fact of life, but as a payroll administrator I take umbrage at your implication that the payroll department is one of the biggest the sources. I read the report you cited and read that the payroll department was not the problem, but the local account manager who was responsible for disbursing paychecks and notifying of terminated employees. It was the Payroll department rather, that identified the fraud not committed it!

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