Jason Chaffetz: COVID funeral payments – Biden program an invitation to commit fraud. Here's how

Unbeknownst to most American taxpayers, they're on the hook to cover the funeral costs of many COVID-19 victims. Thanks to a Biden administration program that reimburses up to $35,500 to applicants who buried a loved one, funerals are the newest entitlement program. 

Given the much higher reimbursement rates hospitals received for treating COVID-19 patients, it's hard to imagine there are a lot of deaths that were improperly attributed to other causes. It's much more plausible to imagine deaths resulting from other causes being attributed to COVID-19.  Sens. Braun and Grassley are right to demand better oversight from the Biden administration. Given an incentive worth tens of thousands of dollars, how easy would it be to reclassify a death based on an earlier exposure or positive test, even if unrelated to the actual cause of death?