Taxpayers lost more than $100B to COVID unemployment insurance fraud, committee finds
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American taxpayers lost more than $100 billion dollars to fraud and improper payments as a result of temporary unemployment insurance programs created in response to COVID-19, the House Oversight Committee found.
The report details information, documents and communications obtained by the committee showing how states across the country, including California, New York and Pennsylvania, processed and administered pandemic unemployment insurance claims with "minimal oversight." Brooke Singman is a political correspondent and reporter for Fox News Digital, Fox News Channel and FOX Business.
The committee said that lack of oversight led to "billions of taxpayer dollars lost to improper and fraudulent payments that will likely never be recovered."