Tuesday’s report cautioned that the “full extent of UI fraud during the pandemic will likely never be known with certainty.”
The Labor Department took issue with the report’s methodology, arguing that it resulted in a higher share of UI expenditures to be categorized as fraudulent.
The problem spanned both the Trump and Biden administrations, the latter of which has taken steps to crack down on fraud and other improper benefit payments.allocated $2 billion to help states modernize their UI systems and improve their safeguards, but the debt ceiling deal hashed out this spring between the White House and congressional Republicansafter some conservatives took issue with which areas the administration was targeting funding toward.
Still DOL’s inspector general in February estimated that as much as $191 billion had been improperly distributed, through fraud and improper payments.Parton said that the agency has “committed significant resources and taken concerted action to deter fraud and to assist law enforcement in holding perpetrators accountable while ensuring timely, equitable access to benefits” to address the issue.
The Justice Department in recent weeks has reiterated that it continues to pursue criminal charges into Covid-related fraud and that it has investigated more than $8.5 billion in allegations to date.
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