The best way to
prevent payroll fraud is to reconcile all balance sheet accounts and payroll records monthly or, at the very least, quarterly.
The government in a bid to rid the system
of payroll fraud introduced the plan, consequent to which a directive was issued to all public servants to obtain e-zwich cards by May 31 or risk having their salaries suspended.
Government payroll will now have a direct interface with this and the existing database, thus
reducing payroll fraud to the barest minimum.
The Minority in Parliament has challenged the management of the Youth Employment Agency (YEA), to publish full details of the internal audit that allegedly
uncovered payroll fraud of about GH cents 51 million.
The EFCC said he was arrested after the Ministry of Finance petitioned the agency in February 2016 requesting for «
payroll fraud investigation» as part of efforts to unravel various techniques used by fraudsters to defraud the Nigerian government by way of ghost workers.
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In general, there are three types
of payroll fraud: timesheet fraud, ghost employees, and employee misclassification.
A High Court in Accra has resumed hearing of the case in which a former National Service boss, Alhaji Imoro Alhassan, and some others, were indicted in
a payroll fraud within the National Service scheme.
Worker misclassification is a type of
payroll fraud that's perpetrated by the company itself, intentionally or due to a misunderstanding of the rules.
However, not
all payroll fraud is created equal.
However, there's an even more costly form of fraud happening at businesses of all sizes across the country:
payroll fraud.
Long story short: Marsha was terminated for «
payroll fraud,» that is, taking a paid day off for being ill when, in fact, she had not been ill.