Fraudulent unemployment payments doled out during COVID up to $135B: watchdog

The GAO notes that the Biden administration’s Department of Labor “expressed concerns” with the study’s methodology “and stated that the resulting estimate was likely overstated”

-- New York Post, --September 13, 2023

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The amount of fraudulent unemployment payments doled out during the pandemic was likely between $100 billion and $135 billion, accounting for up to 15% of the total benefits issued between April 2020 through May 2023, according to a government watchdog.

The study doubles the original Government Accountability Office’s estimate provided to the House Ways and Means Committee in February. ---More...

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