GAO Chief Says IRS Knew It Was Sending Virus Payments to Deceased People

The Internal Revenue Service Headquarters Building in Washington on Sept. 19, 2018. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times

The head of the Government Accountability Office (GAO) said in a House panel on Friday that the Internal Revenue Service knew it was sending out stimulus payments to dead people.

Gene Dodaro, comptroller general of GAO, said the IRS sent his own mother a $1,200 payment earlier this year even though she died in February 2018.