Labor Department watchdog identifies $45 billion of potential pandemic unemployment fraud

'Historic levels of fraud': US government admits scam artists stole $45.6 billion in pandemic unemployment benefits, feds say dead people exploited

US government reveals $45.6 billion in unemployment insurance benefits stolen in fraud. Department of Labor charged 1,000 fraudsters including street gangs and scam artists using identities and Social Security numbers of dead people

Fraudsters likely stole $45.6 bn from US unemployment insurance program in Covid-19

Pandemic unemployment fraud estimates triple to $45.6B, federal watchdog says

The benefits were potentially distributed to people who filed in multiple states, were in prison or were dead.

Pandemic unemployment benefits fraud may top $45 billion, federal watchdog says

Some $45.6 billion in pandemic unemployment benefits may have been fraudulently paid to criminals between March 2020 and April 2022, the US Department of Labor's Office of the Inspector General

Fraudsters likely stole $45.6 bln from U.S. unemployment insurance program in COVID

WASHINGTON — Fraudsters likely stole $45.6 billion from the United States’ unemployment insurance program during the COVID-19 pandemic by applying tactics like using Social Security numbers of deceased individuals, a federal watchdog said on Thursday.

The US raises the number: an estimated $45.6 billion was diverted into unemployment fraud due to Covid

Hundreds of scammers obtained unemployment aid due to the Covid pandemic using Social Security numbers of deceased people and names of people serving sentences in federal prisons