Report says tens of billions in fraudulent unemployment benefits were claimed during height of COVID – WSB-TV Channel 2

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Millions of individuals relied on unemployment benefits during the height of COVID-19. Now, a authorities report says fraudulent claims complete tens of billions of {dollars}.

During the worst of the pandemic, the federal government shelled out $4.6 trillion in funds from six totally different COVID-19 aid legal guidelines.

It was a lifeline for many individuals.

(*2*)

But now, there’s new perception into the fraud related to unemployment and members of congress are looking forward to solutions.

Rep. Jody Hice from Georgia is one of them.

“The query is: What’s being finished? “We don’t want extra conferences. We want motion,” Hice stated.

The authorities accountability workplace which experiences to congress agrees.

TRENDING STORIES:

The accountability workplace says the Department of Labor must do extra to cope with this and develop a extra particular technique to deal with fraud earlier than it occurs.

The Department of Labor says it is a precedence, and so they’re already in the method of making extra adjustments.

[SIGN UP: WSB-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter]

IN OTHER NEWS:

APD: Man steals patrol automobile, crashes and flips onto practice tracks whereas practice was coming

©2022 Cox Media Group