With less than a month before the 2022 midterm elections, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) sent a mailer to 9 million Americans informing them that they may be eligible to apply for tax credits. The IRS also took the unusual step of extending the typical deadline for such filing by a month. The timing of the mailers seems both “suspicious” and “political” – especially given that ...
Given a new Inspector General report revealing that nearly half of pandemic unemployment benefits may have been improperly paid, Ways and Means Republican Leader Rep. Kevin Brady ...
A new report from the Labor Department’s Inspector General (DOL-OIG) reviewed pandemic unemployment benefits in just four states over a six-month period, finding that 42 percent of funds were improperly paid and estimating nearly 14 percent, or nearly $10 billion, likely went to ...
Congressional Republican leaders are calling on Biden Administration agencies to obey a recent Supreme Court ruling that clarified the limitations of certain agency actions and insists that lawmaking is done by elected officials, not unaccountable bureaucrats. In letters to agencies within their jurisdiction, the leaders request the “clear congressional authorization” for upcoming ...
Criminal organizations, including international cybercrime rings and opportunistic foreign actors, exploited a national crisis to steal billions from taxpayers.
Now, faced with billions of dollars lost to unchecked unemployment fraud involving organized cybercrime, foreign actors and international crime rings, Democrats have ignored repeated calls for congressional oversight ...
House Democrats last week provided top Biden Administration officials with a “hall pass” to obstruct Congress and ignore requests for information about its wide-ranging overreach and harmful policies.
Ways and Means Republicans offered “resolutions of inquiry” (ROI) to force top Administration officials to respond to inquiries with specific factual information – but Democrats voted ...
With unemployment fraud leaving taxpayers on the hook for an estimated $163 billion – or up to $400 billion – and only a little over $4 billion recovered, Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Sen. Mike Crapo (R-ID) and Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and 13 Senate Republican cosponsors
Criminal fraud in pandemic unemployment programs has left taxpayers on the hook for $163 billion (and counting).
It’s time to get that money back, which is why Republicans have a new bill to empower states to recover ...
With unemployment fraud leaving taxpayers on the hook for $163 billion (and counting), and only a little over $4 billion recovered, House Republican leaders introduced a new bill last week to pave the way to fight fraud and gain restitution for taxpayers.
The “Chase COVID Unemployment Fraud Act of 2022” (H.R. 8000) would jumpstart efforts to claw back federal funds and pursue recovery of ...
Criminal organizations, including international cybercrime rings and opportunistic foreign actors, exploited a national crisis to steal billions from taxpayers. A new bill will pave the way to fight the fraud.
The bill, named the
