The U.S. government likely awarded more than $5 billion in emergency pandemic loans to applicants that used questionable and unverified Social Security numbers, a government watchdog said
, in the latest example of potential fraud from Covid-19 relief initiatives.
The Pandemic Response Accountability Committee, an oversight panel that monitors pandemic-related government spending,who had used Social Security numbers that weren’t issued legitimately or didn’t match other information.
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