A federal watchdog found that fraudsters may have stolen $45.6 billion from the nation’s unemployment insurance program during the pandemic, using the Social Security numbers of dead people and other tactics to deceive and bilk the U.S. government, according to The Washington Post. The new estimate is a significant increase from the roughly $16 billion
Federal watchdog estimates $45.6B in COVID aid fraud
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