Federal law enforcement is now related to the expiration of the validity of the law of fraud in unemployment programs during the Kofid era.
While Congress extended the law of restrictions on relief defrauds during the era of the epidemic in 2022, the window was closed to prosecute fraud in individual relief programs on Thursday.
“There are huge amounts of fraud Law enforcement Andrew Mwilan, an expert in the general finance policy of the Arnold Ventures Group, an expert in the Arnold Ventures Group, an expert in the Arnold Venture Group, an expert in the general financing policy in the Arnold Ventures Group, an expert in the charitable business group in Arnold Ventures, officials are still trying to track.
“Every day it passes from today, we lose the ability to sue fraud day after day. This is a big problem, and this should be an easy thing for Congress.”
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Despite the opposition from 127 Democrats in the House of Representatives, including the leader of the minority, Hakim Jeffrez, the House of Representatives passed a draft law from the two parties earlier this month to extend the law of unemployment fraud from five to 10 years. This step reflected what the legislators did to the salary protection program, the economic loan program and disaster loans in 2022.
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However, the Senate has not yet dealt with a accompanying bill required to support this extension, as it led lawmakers in the House of Representatives to invite their colleagues. Capitol Hill To make it a priority.
“We cannot let these fraudsters escape from the biggest theft Tax dollars In American history, Representative Jason Smith, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Roads and Means in the House of Representatives, said on Wednesday. “We don't only have a taxpayer commitment to recover the largest possible amount of this money-up to $ 135 billion-and we also need to send a message that you will never get stuck after criminals who benefit from our support for needs. … there is no time to waste.”
According to government accounting office estimates, up to $ 135 billion of friendly unemployment insurance programs due to fraud during the epidemic. To date, only $ 5 billion has been recovered, or less than 4 %.
Representative Jason Smith speaks. M. , Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee, during a hearing on Trump's tax cuts. (House and Means Roads)
between Ministry of Justice And the Ministry of Labor, there are more than 2500 unleashed criminal issues or continuous field investigations related to criminal unemployment fraud during the Kofid era, according to a newspaper newspaper issued by Smith.
Unless the statute of statute of limitations is expanded by Congress, federal law enforcement will not be able to prosecute these cases.
Mouilan pointed out that the majority of unemployment fraud during Covid originated from the very large “gaps” “you can drive a truck through” in the unemployment help program in the epidemic.
Vivek Ramaswamy says this level of fraud only when the government waste a lot of money.
“They did not have strict enough requirements in paperwork, and therefore, anyone can basically apply for this and only testify that they participated in the activity for their own account … and demanding large amounts of unemployment benefits in this process.” He also pointed to how people were applying for financial assistance under the names of the dead or prison prisoners.
“In California, About a billion dollars of fraud has been facilitated by submitting claims on behalf of prisoners in prison in California.
The lawmakers in the House of Representatives call for their colleagues in the Senate to follow their progress and report a draft law that extends the statute of limitations to prosecute the fraud of the era of the epidemic, which led to hundreds of billions of taxpayers taxpayers that are lost in criminal activities. (Reuters/Fox News Digital)
This month, legislators invited the Republican Party, including Smith, Senate colleagues To take over the legislation of the House of Representatives to expand the statute of limitations related to fraud in the top.
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When asked why he believed that the Senate had not yet dealt with a draft law to expand the statute of limitations of unemployment, Moulan assumed that it “extends an interest.”
“This was not the way in which the nominations were in the first part of the year of the Senate, the budget solution, or now tax conversations, or, as you know, whatever the scandal of today,” Mouilan said.
“These are the things that seem to dominate the procedures in the Senate. We are now in a position where, if they don't act soon, we will lose the ability to sue more fraud in this program.”
