This link provides a sample 1099-G from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) website: IRS form Certain Government Payments 1099-G. You receive a 1099-G tax form reflecting unemployment benefits you weren't expecting and did not receive.The mail could be from any state even if you never lived or worked there. This could include receiving requests to verify your identity for unemployment benefits, receiving letters notifying you of an unemployment claim filed in your name, or receiving unexpected payments or debit cards. A government agency sends you mail about an unemployment claim or payment and you did not recently file for unemployment benefits.Here are some signs that you may be a victim of unemployment identity fraud: Warning Signs of Unemployment Identity Fraud People filing for unemployment may become aware of “Claim Hijacking” or “Claim/Account Takeover” when they unexpectedly stop receiving unemployment benefit payments and notice that the bank account or address information on their unemployment claim was changed without their knowledge. Many people who experience unemployment identity fraud only find out when they get something in the mail, like a notice from a state unemployment agency or a state-issued 1099-G tax form reporting unemployment benefits that they never requested or received.

This is known as “Claim Hijacking” or “Claim/Account Takeover.” Sometimes criminals use stolen personal information to illegally log into a person’s unemployment account and steal the unemployment benefit payments intended for the real claimant.

Unemployment identity fraud happens when criminals use other people’s information to illegally receive unemployment benefits – and it’s increasingly common. En español Unemployment Identity Fraud is on the Rise

Michigan unemployment tax form