State Blocked Nearly 1M Fraudulent Applications for Anchor Property-Tax Relief Last Year

New Jersey’s Division of Taxation last year blocked more than 900,000 attempts to fraudulently obtain Anchor property-tax relief benefits. That was a “significant increase” compared to the year before, officials said in budget documents.

Now, many taxpayers applying for state-funded Anchor benefits are being asked to go through an additional level of identity checks as part of ongoing efforts to prevent fraud.