The response to the pandemic led to "enormous outlays of public money which exposed it to the risk of fraud and error", a report says.

House committee demands answers on alleged Minnesota pandemic fraud totaling up to $9 billion, targeting SBA relief programs ...

Arizona is faring better than other states in tracking down money from pandemic unemployment fraud. There is still nearly $4 billion unaccounted for, however. Nationwide, the recovery rate of ...

Federal law enforcement's hands are tied now that the statute of limitations for prosecuting fraud in COVID-era unemployment programs has expired. While Congress extended the statute of limitations ...

Court records detail how people across Long Island allegedly exploited pandemic jobless aid, from public workers to alleged ...

The Department of Government Efficiency recently spotlighted unemployment benefits paid to tens of thousands of individuals whose reported birthdates indicated they were either children or dead. One ...

The Michigan Senate voted to give amnesty to people who the state says were overpaid unemployment benefits during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The final report by the Covid counter fraud commissioner, Tom Hayhoe, found that many schemes were rolled out quickly with significant risks.

Federal prosecutors have repeatedly called the fraud case that plundered Minnesota's child nutrition program the "largest pandemic fraud in the United States." But it's far from the only ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10)– An Amsterdam woman has been sentenced for her involvement in a pandemic fraud conspiracy, the Offices of the New York State Inspector General announced Wednesday. Jodi Drygula, ...