They should have used W2's during COVID to take back Covid payments from those that didn't experience income decreases. The entire intent was the govt shutdown large amounts of businesses and was paying for that gap.

But plenty of people were not impacted or actually saw income increases due to COVID and still got payments

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This is the Holy Grail of government waste. Remember states/cites that still have not spent their "COVID" money? Pepperidge farms does.

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If it is unspent, can the administration claw it back?

Edit: They would then need to ask Congress for rescission on the funds.

Almost every engineering or consulting firm I know received thousands to millions in COVID relief that was legal and was forgiven. Which is crazy because most of those experienced few downturns due to COVID.

doubledog said:

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This is the Holy Grail of government waste. Remember states/cites that still have not spent their "COVID" money? Pepperidge farms does.

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All the small towns in the area have "covid sidewalks" now.

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The Pandemic Unemployment Fraud Enforcement Act, introduced by U.S. Rep. Jason Smith, R-Mo., provides a five-year extension on the statute of limitations for criminally prosecuting those who committed CARES Act related UI fraud.

According to the DOJ, there are still 157,000 open UI fraud complaints and 1,648 open investigations. If no congressional action is taken, the current statute will expire on March 27, leaving thousands of Americans unreimbursed for stolen benefits and potentially hundreds of fraudsters would be let off the hook.

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The bill has 25 cosponsors, all Republican, and is part of the GOP's efforts to address waste, fraud, and abuse connected to the federal government.

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https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/100-billion-covid-era-unemployment-fraud-targeted-republicans?utm_source=mux&utm_medium=social-media&utm_campaign=social-media-autopost

Fightin_Aggie said:

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Almost every engineering or consulting firm I know received thousands to millions in COVID relief that was legal and was forgiven. Which is crazy because most of those experienced few downturns due to COVID.

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I don't think this has anything to do with that. This is for those people that decided to keep fraudulently drawing unemployment when employers couldn't find anyone to take a job.

This is going to be amazing, remember when Bloomberg of all places even ran an article saying how much foreign governments stole? Like wtf were non citizens doing stealing and you know if they can track mom and pops to a school board meeting they already knew with absolute who stole all this money.

Run it all down, and start making arrests.

You're correct. This does not deal with PPP loans.

It's for people that received fraudulent unemployment benefits