[GatewayPundit] Topline: Ten state-level agencies accidentally overpaid $10.4 billion — and possibly much more — to people filing for unemployment during the COVID-19 pandemic. Most of the overpayments were genuine mistakes, but an estimated $676.3 million was fraud.
| The thing was designed to not merely allow but encourage fraud, preferentially feeding money to favoured groups of Friends of the Democrats. |
Key facts: That’s according to a report from the Department of Labor that was conducted by the consulting group Regis & Associates. It reviewed labor departments in Connecticut, Florida, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Washington and Wisconsin from April 2020 to September 2022. Each state was paying unemployment insurance using federal funds sent through the CARES Act.
| Call the DOGE crew! Or, you know, contact those Republican-congrolled states putting together DOGE initiatives of their own, like Florida. |
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