- Coronavirus-era programs flooded cash into a program that already has one of the government’s highest rates of improper payments: unemployment checks.
- Non-coronavirus unemployment checks already had an improper payment rate of nearly 19% in fiscal year 2021 and more than 22% in 2022.
- Coronavirus programs flooded this with even easier access to even more cash, with $873 billion in checks to people who said they were laid off or had hours reduced because of coronavirus.
