Posted on 02/09/2023 7:26:59 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Rep. Jason Smith (R-Mo.), Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, has convened hearings “on how Democrats, at every turn, blocked investigations into the greatest theft of taxpayer dollars in American history,” said Smith in his opening statement.
“Today’s hearing has been a long time coming. For more than two years, Republicans have been sounding the alarm about the greatest theft of taxpayer dollars in American history, the massive fraud perpetrated in the unemployment insurance program that skyrocketed with the COVID-19 pandemic. While many Americans who actually qualified for these benefits were left struggling to reclaim their benefits and their identity, upwards of tens of billions of taxpayer dollars have been stolen.”
From Politico:
The Labor Department believes a larger share of unemployment insurance benefits were improperly paid than its previous calculations — 21.5 percent versus 18.7 percent of the total last year — accounting for the upward shift in the estimated amount lost to waste and fraud.
But federal officials acknowledge that they cannot precisely identify how much federal aid was wrongfully sent out.
UI benefits are just one of a handful of large government programs that were created or expanded during the pandemic to help individuals and businesses harmed by the disruptions it caused to the economy.
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Where did it all go? California offers one example. Unbelievably, there were 35,000 unemployment claims filed by California prison inmates, and at least 20,000 of the claims were paid out.
How could that have happened? It turns out that the identities of benefit recipients weren’t cross-checked against those who are incarcerated. This routine, mundane security measure that required a few computer keystrokes cost taxpayers more than a billion dollars.
Since a lot of it was used for weed, they got a lot of the money back!
Starve the beast. It’s the only way out. Eliminate entire departments. That way the rest can be more thoroughly scrutinized.
WTAF? That’s it? $191 billion? Or is that “so far”? Guess someone never expected that result huh? Now, any idea how much fraud-acity is occuring in with Mr Z while saving democracy?
They can track down people who were near the Capitol on Jan 6th but they can’t find people who stole $181 billion (even though they received/deposited checks).
Nothing changes till the money runs out...................
Washington state alone lost at least 600 million to fraud. I don’t need to mention which party has an iron grip on the state, but I’ll say it begins with a D.
All planned by the politicians who pushed this hot mess.
Funny how that seems to be, doesn’t it?
It wasn’t planned. They didn’t care. It’s not their money.
The government has too much money.
Yet another reason the politicians called communist chinese covid-19 a pandemic when it was not.
They could steal.
All laws and regulations are planned. Unintended consequences so often occur, but underlying the whole is the assertion by those who pass laws and write regulations that they "know" what they are doing. Even when they don't.
On a parallel theme, is it not interesting that almost no politician and no bureaucrat ever, ever says they erred?
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