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Pandemic Response Accountability Committee
Fraud Prevention Alert: Pre-Award Vetting Using Data Analytics Could Have Prevented Over $79B in Potentially Fraudulent Pandemic Relief Payments
This PRAC fraud prevention alert focused on some of the largest pandemic relief programs: the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loan (COVID-19 EIDL) program and Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), and the Department of Labor’s (DOL) pandemic-related Unemployment Insurance (UI) programs. In 2023, the SBA Office of Inspector General (OIG) and the DOL OIG estimated that the total amount of fraud and improper payments for these programs is nearly $400 billion. In this alert, the PRAC estimates the amount of potential fraud across these programs stemming from...
Department of Justice OIG
33 Inmates and Accomplices Charged with Illegally Obtaining Coronavirus Unemployment Benefits
Department of Justice OIG
Southfield Man Charged in Multi-State Identify Theft and Unemployment Fraud Scheme
Department of Justice OIG
Corpus Christi man charged with CARES Act unemployment fraud
A 28-year-old man has been charged with mail fraud after allegedly receiving nearly $100,000 in fraudulent benefits
Department of Justice OIG
Malden Man Indicted for CARES Act Pandemic Unemployment Fraud and Identity Fraud
BOSTON – A Malden man was charged today with identity fraud and with submitting fraudulent applications for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA). The federal PUA program provides unemployment-related benefits to individuals who have been impacted by COVID-19.
Department of Justice OIG
Florida Man Charged with COVID Relief Fraud and Health Care Fraud
A Florida man was arrested today on allegations that he fraudulently sought several Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans, and that he participated in a scheme to defraud Medicare of at least $5.6 million. It is further alleged that a portion of the PPP loan proceeds were potentially used in furtherance of the Medicare fraud scheme.