House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., released a report Tuesday that he says will show “massive” unemployment fraud that occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“It’s going to show that as much as 20% of the funds were issued fraudulently,” Comer said during an appearance on Newsmax’s “Wake Up America” on Tuesday. “And even more concerning, the Biden-Harris administration knows this, yet they’ve done absolutely nothing to, number one, hold anyone accountable, and, number two, to fix the problem. And even worse, they want to make this program permanent.”
Comer said many of the software programs used by states for their unemployment claims were outdated and “easily hacked by fraudsters,” enabling the theft of taxpayer dollars.
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