to exist is because of the strong public policy against implied repeals. See, e.g., Blanchette v. Connecticut General Insurance Co., 419 U.S. 102, 134, 95 S.Ct. 335, 42 L.Ed.2d 320 (1974) (requiring a “positive repugnancy” for the existence of a new statute to partially repeal a prior statute). Section 1001 was designed to be a general statute reaching a broad array of misconduct. Multiple challenges to the applicability of § 1001 to cases where more specific false statement statutes exist have been unsuccessful; it seems to us from a review of the applicable law that it is a rare situation in which § 1001 should be deemed inapplicable due to the foregoing. See, e.g., U.S. v. Herring, 916 F.2d 1543 (11th Cir.1990), cert denied, 500 U.S. 946, 111 S.Ct. 2248, 114 L.Ed.2d 488 (1991) (<HOLDING>); U.S. v. Fern, 696 F.2d 1269 (11th Cir.1983)
recognizing receipt of unemployment benefits could impact a claimants disability claim holding that the consideration of the fact that claimant collected unemployment benefits while he was allegedly disabled was not a ground for reversal where there was other medical and vocational evidence supporting denial of benefits and claimants receipt of unemployment benefits was not decisive factor in denial of benefits holding  1001 prosecution for false statements in unemployment benefits not precluded by unemployment benefits statute specifically addressing topic holding that unemployment compensation benefits received by plaintiff are collateral source and that defendant could not reduce personal injury damages because of such benefits holding that pursuant to statute unemployment benefits must be offset against workers compensation payments