{"id":1930205,"date":"2023-05-13T06:10:20","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T10:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/feds-paid-38-million-in-pandemic-aid-to-3200-dead-people-inspectors-general-find\/"},"modified":"2023-05-13T06:14:13","modified_gmt":"2023-05-13T10:14:13","slug":"feds-paid-38-million-in-pandemic-aid-to-3200-dead-people-inspectors-general-find","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/feds-paid-38-million-in-pandemic-aid-to-3200-dead-people-inspectors-general-find\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspectors General found that the government paid $38 million in pandemic aid to 3,200 deceased individuals."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffeds-paid-38-million-in-pandemic-aid-to-3200-dead-people-inspectors-general-find%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1930205&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Over $38 Million in Pandemic Assistance Issued to Dead People, Inspector General Reports<\/h2>\n<p>In 2020 and 2021, more than 3,000 dead people were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/feds-paid-38-million-in-pandemic-aid-to-3200-dead-people-inspectors-general-find\/\" title=\"Inspectors General found that the government paid  million in pandemic aid to 3,200 deceased individuals.\">issued federal pandemic assistance totaling<\/a> over $38 million, according to a report by a U.S. Inspector General team investigating fraud. This revelation follows a February report that found 69,000 &#8220;questionable&#8221; Social Security numbers were used to obtain $5.4 billion in COVID-19 loans and grants. U.S. Inspector General Michael Horowitz estimated that up to $400 billion in COVID-19 assistance was issued fraudulently, with $163 billion to $191 billion related to the pandemic Unemployment Insurance program.<\/p>\n<h3>The Greatest Theft of American Tax Dollars in History<\/h3>\n<p>Chair Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) called the findings &#8220;the greatest theft of American tax dollars in history.&#8221; The Pandemic Response Accountability Committee (PRAC) was created in 2020 to track allocations from the $2.2 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act. PRAC&#8217;s 22 inspector generals are now tracking over $7.1 trillion in federal pandemic allocations on its webpage, which is accessible to the public.<\/p>\n<h3>Identity Fraud and Misuse<\/h3>\n<p>PRAC&#8217;s report found that of the 20,404 Social Security numbers verified as belonging to deceased individuals, 3,222 were used to secure pandemic assistance from the Small Business Administration and through the Paycheck Protection Program. PRAC data scientists determined that funds were disbursed in connection with applications using 305 of the 3,222 Social Security numbers, totaling nearly $38 million in potential fraud. The report also found instances of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-pfizer-finds-counterfeit-covid-19-vaccine-shots-abroad\/\" title=\"Report: Pfizer Finds Counterfeit COVID-19 Vaccine Shots Abroad\">identity fraud<\/a> and misuse, including applications filed after the number owner&#8217;s date of death and applications filed before the owner&#8217;s date of death but paid after.<\/p>\n<h3>Tracking Fraudulent Pandemic Assistance<\/h3>\n<p>The Pandemic Response Accountability Committee is continuing to track fraudulent pandemic assistance, with its inspector generals monitoring allocations from the American Rescue Plan Act and other federal COVID-19 relief and stimulus packages. The committee&#8217;s &#8220;Do Not Pay&#8221; system is helping to verify the dates of death for Social Security numbers and prevent further <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-pick-for-top-labor-spot-oversaw-fraudulent-broken-unemployment-system\/\" title=\"Biden\u2019s Pick for Top Labor Spot Oversaw Fraudulent, Broken Unemployment System\">fraudulent payments<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About $38 million in federal pandemic assistance was issued to Social Security numbers belonging to more than 3,000 dead people in 2020 and 2021, a U.S. Inspector General team empaneled to probe fraud reported on May 11. The disclosure was posted by the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee (PRAC) in a follow-up to a February report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":509,"featured_media":1930206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[26654,24400,7629,7704,5045,5597,21126,9413,4828],"class_list":["post-1930205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-26654","tag-24400","tag-aid","tag-deceased","tag-government","tag-individuals","tag-inspectors","tag-paid","tag-pandemic"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/509"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1930205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1930206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1930205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1930205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1930205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}