A recent Department of Labor audit suggests that, thanks to a lack of oversight, improper COVID-19 unemployment benefits could reach $87 billion.
As reported by Just the News, “at least $39.2 billion in improper payments, including fraud, were at risk of not being detected and recovered.”
“Specifically,” the audit found, “DOL’s guidance and oversight did not ensure states implemented the programs and paid benefits promptly; performed required and recommended improper payment detection and recovery activities; and reported accurate and completed program activities.”
According to the Office of Inspector General, the failures “occurred primarily because states’ IT systems were not modernized, staffing resources were insufficient to manage the increased number of new claims, and according to state officials, guidance from [the Employment and Training Administration] was untimely and unclear.”
The report was published after the Inspector General sent a memo alerting the Department of Labor that they found $5.4 billion in potentially fraudulent claims paid to prisoners, dead people, multistate claimants and suspicious accounts from March to October of 2020.
The Inspector General found that social security numbers of prisoners and dead people were used to fraudulently claim unemployment benefits.
To be exact, $58.7 million was sent to dead people, $98.3 million to federal and state prisoners, $3.5 billion to multistate claimants, and $2 billion in claims to suspicious and disposable e-mail accounts.
The Inspector General says that improper payments could reach $87.3 billion by September, when the CARES Act extensions end.
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Was AOC in charge of the disbursements?
It is minf-boggling at times that this country survives in spite of the ignorance and incompetence in government.
These days, it keeps (TO ME) getting proven, that TO BE IN GOVERNMENT you need to be ignorant and incomptetant.. ESPECIALLY IF YOU work for any federal group handing out OUR TAX VICTIM MONEY to leeches.
“The Inspector General found that social security numbers of prisoners and dead people were used to fraudulently claim unemployment benefits.”
“To be exact, $58.7 million was sent to dead people, $98.3 million to federal and state prisoners, $3.5 billion to multistate claimants, and $2 billion in claims to suspicious and disposable e-mail accounts.”
But there was NO Evidence that the Democrats’ wanted believe that these same dead people, federal and state prisoners, multistate claimants, suspicious and disposable e-mail accounts voted for their demented Hidin Biden in the 2020 election.
To Democrats, Truth, Facts, Reality and History are all irrelevant,
if the Democrats do not WANT to believe them.
Democrats will just make up their own Truth, Facts, Reality or History
To fit what they WANT to believe or fits into the Con or Deception that they are running at the time.
WHAT I want to know, is for DECADES we’ve known the SAME GETS DONE with welfare fraud, Social security fraud, and damn near EVERY OTHER government handout program out there.
SO WHY THE HELL HAS NOTHING EVER BEEN done to reign in this fraud, such as FINING and JAILING the perpetrators!
Incorrect payments? Fraud?
Now there’s a shock. Never would’ve expected that.
The good for nothing bureaucracy and all of the incompetent people running it. After all, it is only taxpayer money being wasted, right deep state?