Pandemic Fraud Gone Wild – WSJ

Government spending and fraud are frequent, but rarely face-to-face dance partners like for unemployment payments during a pandemic. A new report adds to the growing evidence of a failure to protect taxpayers.

The Government Accountability Office this week released a review of the Labor Department’s handling of $878 billion in unemployment insurance benefits between April 2020 and September 2022. Labor estimates that time Their regular unemployment program fraud reached $8.5 billion between July 2020 and June 2021. That’s 8.6% of the funding.