China News Service, September 23. According to foreign media reports, on September 22, local time, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of the Inspector General released a report saying that during the new crown, fraudsters may defraud about $45.6 billion (approximately $45.6 billion) through the U.S. unemployment insurance program. 323.509 billion yuan), well above the estimate of about $16 billion a year ago.
According to the Washington Post, some of the suspects used more than 205,000 Social Security numbers belonging to the deceased and relied on hard-to-trace emails to file billions of dollars in unemployment claims in multiple states simultaneously.
There are also suspects who exploit the status of prisoners who are ineligible for assistance.
Inspector general officials warned that their current tally may still be incomplete because more updated prisoner data is not available from the Justice Department, so the report can only focus on "high-risk" areas.
The inspector general's office said it has opened about 190,000 investigations related to unemployment insurance fraud since the outbreak began.
The federal government has now prosecuted 1,000 suspects for crimes involving unemployment benefits.
According to related reports, the number of scams related to the economic stimulus bill in the United States has surged in the past two years.
According to the Associated Press, on September 20, local time, the U.S. Department of Justice accused 48 people in Minnesota of taking advantage of the new crown epidemic to defraud $250 million from a federal bailout program that provides meals for poor children.
According to US media analysis, this shows that the large-scale economic stimulus plan in the United States to deal with the epidemic lacked transparency and supervision in the implementation process, and many funds were misallocated.