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.

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 ...

The government is warning a voluntary window to return any money owed to taxpayers claimed through pandemic-era schemes ...

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 ...

Amber Shultz, the secretary of the Kansas Department of Labor, tells legislators at a Jun. 10, 2025, hearing about the status of the funds recovered after an unprecedented amount of fraudulent ...

Pretending to register emotional support animals was a lucrative scheme for a Washington, D.C. man who fraudulently received more than $2.1 million in pandemic relief loans from the Small Business ...

Covid-19 fraud cost taxpayers £10.9bn but ‘much beyond recovery’, report finds - The final report by the Covid counter fraud commissioner, Tom Hayhoe, found that many schemes were rolled out quickly ...

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