This. From
https://www.govexec.com/management/2023/03/coronavirus-round...$247 billion in improper payments in fiscal 2022
"At least" $35 billion in pandemic relief money
- $29 billion was in the Pandemic Protection Program
- $6.9 billion was in the Economic Injury Disaster Loan program
IRS has 975 tax and money laundering cases related to pandemic fraud with a total of $3.2 billion in alleged fraud. 236 already sentenced for avg. 37 months in prison. ~100% conviction rate.
From: https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-23-105523.pdf "the lower bound of this fraud rate (7.6 percent) extrapolated to total spending across all Unemployment Insurance (UI) programs ... suggest over $60 billion in fraudulent UI payments."
- Cases of Proven Fraud: "currently $4.3 billion dollars of fraud based on formal determinations"
From: https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-22-104397 and https://www.asas.org/taking-stock/blog-post/taking-stock/202...
- Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP) provided producers $31.0 billion for various commodities ... half of the producers that GAO reviewed did not provide full support for their payments. The payments are therefore potentially improper.
- USDA’s Business Center 2021 payment integrity review for CFAP estimated that CFAP had a significant improper payment rate for the fiscal year 2020 ... estimated that that $450M were improper.