https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11241391/Federal-watchdog-admits-45-6-BILLION-pandemic-unemployment-benefits-stolen-fraudsters.html
US watchdog admits $46 BILLION in pandemic
unemployment benefits was stolen by fraudsters
using the SSNs of DEAD people and prisoners
Daily Mail (UK), by Harriet Alexander
Posted By: Ribicon, 9/23/2022 8:57:18 AM
Fraudsters stole nearly $46billion in unlawful unemployment claims during the pandemic, the Labor Department concluded on Thursday—while warning that the actual figure may be even higher. Criminals used inventive measures to access the COVID benefits, with more than 205,000 Social Security numbers that belonged to dead people being used to claim the cash. Some schemes saw the Social Security numbers of prisoners being used, despite them being ineligible for the unemployment benefits. The latest figure is more than double the earlier estimate, issued by the Labor Department last year, when they concluded that $16 billion had been stolen.(Snip)The Labor Department inspector general said 190,000 investigations have been opened