 senate cracks down on unemployment fraud in these tough economic times it is more important than ever that people who are rightfully entitled to unemployment should be getting them and people who are trying to defraud the system shoud not in an effort to crack down on those who are trying to collect benefits for which they are not eligible the michigan senate has approved a measure aimed at identifying unemployment fraud and ensuring stability of unemployment benefits for michigan residents for details see  wwwsenatemichigangov gop readarticleasp 102  