Georgia employers have lacked a streamlined process to report fraudulent unemployment claims.

Mark Butler, commissioner at the Georgia Department of Labor, says a more centralized system will hopefully change that.

"We want to make the process more open, easier to access, because having people helping us makes our ability to respond much quicker," says Butler.

The most common type of fraud is people on unemployment neglecting to tell the state about a new job.

In 2010, the department received around 2,000 reports of unemployment fraud. Levels have dropped by half since then. Still, only about 10 percent of the cases were prosecuted.

Butler says the department wants to speed things up by moving its reporting process from local career centers to online.

"It benefits the employers to help us catch these overpayments because it keeps us from having to pay out of that system on claims that are fraudulent," he says. "And so it saves the system money, and therefore in the end it saves employers money."

Butler says the department will also begin to garnish wages and draw money from tax returns for those convicted of fraud.