$5.4 billion in COVID aid may have gone to businesses using questionable Social Security numbers: report

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The U.S. government may have awarded roughly $5.4 billion in COVID-19 aid to small businesses with potentially ineligible Social Security numbers, said a...

The U.S. government may have awarded roughly $5.

4 billion in COVID-19 aid to small businesses with potentially ineligible Social Security numbers, said a Washington Post report on Monday citing a new estimate from the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee, or PRAC. The estimate comes as the Republican-run House Oversight Committee plans to hold a hearing on Wednesday titled"Federal Pandemic Spending: A Prescription for Waste, Fraud and Abuse.

 

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How much went to banks and investment firms that didn’t need it but took it because they could? I worked for one that got half a mil and bought real estate with it.

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