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Biden admin likely paid out $84.6M in error for Minnesota housing assistance — including to hundreds who were already dead
New York Post ^ | January 12, 2026 | Josh Christenson

Posted on 01/13/2026 7:26:54 PM PST by MinorityRepublican

The Department of Housing and Urban Development likely paid out more than $84 million in ineligible assistance to Minnesota during President Joe Biden’s final year in office — including to more than 500 “deceased tenants,” according to officials and documents reviewed by The Post.

HUD has been looking into billions of dollars in taxpayer-funded housing aid doled out by the Biden administration — and its most recent review found $84.6 million in potentially erroneous payments in fiscal year 2024.

That included up to $496,000 in improper assistance to 509 dead tenants.

Approximately $246,000 more was shelled out to 20 people whose Social Security numbers couldn’t be verified, meaning they were likely non-citizens.

“Biden’s HUD failed the people of Minnesota — paying dead people while vulnerable families were left behind,” Secretary Scott Turner said.

“This gross level of mismanagement and failure to safeguard American taxpayer dollars is unacceptable. Under President Trump’s leadership, we are holding bad actors accountable and will continue to root out rampant fraud in Minnesota and across the country.”

HUD’s review comes as Minnesota faces mounting accusations of widespread fraud totaling billions of dollars over the course of Democratic Gov. Tim Walz’s tenure. Walz dropped his bid for a third term amid the scandal.

The funding went to 61 housing authorities across the Land of 10,000 Lakes, officials said in the preliminary audit, which was not able to fully confirm fraud had taken place.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


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1 posted on 01/13/2026 7:26:54 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Look, M.R., the dead need housing also doncha know.


2 posted on 01/13/2026 7:29:12 PM PST by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX)
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To: MinorityRepublican

That wasn’t an error.


3 posted on 01/13/2026 7:31:34 PM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Error, my arse


4 posted on 01/13/2026 7:34:51 PM PST by goodnesswins (Make educ institutions return to the Mission...reading, writing, math...not Opinions & propaganda)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Maybe the Biden fools used GPS devices to keep track of the recipients of the millions of dollars in aid.

“A lot of them don’t get out much. They never seem to go anywhere. Homebodies.”


5 posted on 01/13/2026 7:36:50 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: MinorityRepublican
Error?

I do not believe that is the correct word to be using here.

6 posted on 01/13/2026 7:37:36 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (The tree accused of killed Sonny Bono was planted.)
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To: goodnesswins

Some were people paid off who said they had the authority to bring home the money for the listed recipient.

And all of them gave 90% as donations to the Kamala Harris campaign.

Great money laundering.


7 posted on 01/13/2026 7:38:42 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: MinorityRepublican

LOL in error, OMG I almost peed myself laughing..yeah error my a@@ more like “Here’s some dough now you be good lil pirates and vote Dem”


8 posted on 01/13/2026 7:41:17 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: MinorityRepublican

Next time track the money better with Quicken Simplifi like the little girl in the TV ad who used her allowance, birthday money, savings and investments to buy Sparkle the pony. All on her phone app.

Otherwise the millions in government aid money just gets lost somehow.


9 posted on 01/13/2026 7:42:56 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: MinorityRepublican

I’m guessing it was a lot more. The word last week was it was $12 B.

Anyway, no. It was no error.


10 posted on 01/13/2026 7:43:31 PM PST by stanne
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To: MinorityRepublican

“in error”. I have a bridge to sell you.


11 posted on 01/13/2026 7:54:39 PM PST by webheart (Notice how I said all of that without any hyphens, and only complete words? )
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To: House Atreides

Error yeah right.


12 posted on 01/13/2026 8:01:29 PM PST by iamgalt
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To: MinorityRepublican

Whoops. Just an error ya know. Whoopsie daisy...so sorry!


13 posted on 01/13/2026 8:03:11 PM PST by DouglasKC
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To: goodnesswins

My thoughts exactly.


14 posted on 01/13/2026 8:05:46 PM PST by madison10 ("...the dark places of the earth are full of the haunts of cruelty." Psalm 74:20b [NKJV])
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To: mewzilla

(That wasn’t an error)

Correct

It was Buying Votes


15 posted on 01/13/2026 8:22:13 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Hey the dead are the dims most loyal voting bloc!


16 posted on 01/13/2026 8:33:45 PM PST by xp38
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To: MinorityRepublican

Error?


17 posted on 01/13/2026 8:35:50 PM PST by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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To: MinorityRepublican

RICO charges are coming for more than a few folks soon.


18 posted on 01/13/2026 8:53:23 PM PST by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Better Homes and Gravesites.


19 posted on 01/13/2026 10:02:37 PM PST by Noumenon (They killed the guy who just wanted to talk. Now... now they've got me. KTF)
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To: MinorityRepublican

In error?

Not a snowball’s chance in hell.


20 posted on 01/13/2026 10:15:17 PM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus….)
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