Unemployment Fraud Scrutinized Ahead of Debate Over Renewing Federal Benefits

Unemployment Fraud Scrutinized Ahead of Debate Over Renewing Federal Benefits
Ranking Member Sen. Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) questions Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Charles Rettig during a Senate Finance Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 8, 2021. Tom Williams-Pool/Getty Images
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Republicans in the U.S. House and Senate are demanding a federal investigation into unemployment benefits money lost to fraudsters, calling it the “greatest theft of American tax dollars in our nation’s history.”

The members sent a letter to the Government Accountability Office, asking the federal oversight group to investigate the fraud and arguing structural issues exist within the federal government that make the theft possible.

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