General & Fraud FAQs

If you want to provide feedback about the government’s response to the coronavirus or about features and functionalities of this website, use our feedback form. If you have questions about the data, you can use the "Data Questions? Email us." button on each of the data dashboard pages to submit a question about that particular data set. To report possible fraud, waste, abuse, or mismanagement of coronavirus funding, submit a whistleblower complaint, or file a whistleblower retaliation complaint, go to our hotline page and select the appropriate form to submit your complaint.

Information you will find on this website includes: 

• Data on recipients who received federal funding in response to the pandemic, including how much they received and how they are spending the funding.

• Information related to our Pandemic Analytics Center of Excellence work. 

•  Data stories that give context to the data.  

• Our publications and reports.

• Inspectors General reports on their agencies' management of pandemic programs. 

• A way to report fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement of the funding.

The pieces of legislation funding the pandemic relief response are:

• The Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2020 (Total $7.8B) -- Signed into law on March 6, 2020 and provided:
  • Emergency funding for the Department of Health and Human Services, the State Department, and the Small Business Administration
  • Expansion of telehealth services under Medicare
• The Families First Coronavirus Response Act (Total $15.4B) -- Signed into law on March 18, 2020,and provided:
  • Paid sick leave
  • Tax credits
  • Free COVID-19 testing
  • Expansion of food assistance and unemployment benefits
  • Increased Medicaid funding
• The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, (CARES Act) (Total $2.1T) -- Signed into law on March 27, 2020 and provided, in part:
  • Funding to federal agencies to make contract, grant, loan, and direct payment awards to state and local governments, individuals, and businesses
  • Tax rebates of up to $1,200 per individual, with an additional $500 per child
  •  A temporary expansion of unemployment benefits
  • Suspension of payments and interest on federal student loans
  • Emergency loans to businesses through the Paycheck Protection Program
• Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act (Total $483B) -- Signed into law on April 24, 2020 and provided:
  • Additional funding to the Paycheck Protection Program, as well as other Small Business Administration programs
  • Funding to health care providers and federal, state, local, and tribal governments for coronavirus testing and tracing initiatives.
• The Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2021 (Total $900B) – Signed into law on December 27, 2020 as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 and provided: 
  • An extension of federal unemployment benefits
  • Direct payments to individuals
  • A second round of Paycheck Protection Program loans
  • Funding for vaccines, testing, and tracing
  • Rental assistance
  • Child care support
  • Funding for broadband
• The American Rescue Plan of 2021 (Total $1.9T) – Signed into law on March 11, 2021, and provided, in part:
  • $1,400 direct payments to individuals
  • $300 a week in unemployment benefits
  • An increase in the child tax credit -- $3,000 for children 6 to 17, $3,600 for children under 6
  • Funding for vaccines and testing
  • State and local aid
  • New Paycheck Protection Loans
  • Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program to help families with home heating and cooling costs
  • Rental assistance, including emergency housing vouchers for the homeless, survivors of domestic violence, and victims of human trafficking. 
  • Support for restaurants and shuttered venue locations
  • Funding for education
     

PandemicOversight.gov was created by the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee (PRAC) to display the details of the $5+ trillion in coronavirus relief spending provided by six pieces of coronavirus legislation and information related to the coronavirus response. 

The Pandemic Response Accountability Committee (PRAC) was established by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Security Act (CARES Act) as a committee of the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency (CIGIE). The PRAC's is to serve the American public by promoting transparency and the coordinated oversight of the Federal Government's coronavirus response to prevent and detect fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement and to identify and mitigate major risks that cross program and agency boundaries.