As the Corona crisis continues to impact the German economy, many workers are currently on a temporary short-time work status known as Kurzarbeit. According to the German Federal Employment Agency (Bundesagentur für Arbeit, or Arbeitsagentur), there are possibly over 4,000 cases of fraud in filing for Kurzarbeitergeld, or short-time work allowance, have been reported by various news outlets, with the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung initially reporting an estimated 4,250, and up to 4,690 indications of fraud reported by numerous additional media outlets.