DOGE Touts Fraud Found Four Years Ago

April 16, 2025 4:59 am

NEW YORK (AP) — Elon Musk’s federal cost-cutting team is touting its latest finding: Hundreds of millions of dollars in allegedly fraudulent unemployment claims. But the fraud the Department of Government Efficiency is claiming to have uncovered seems to mimic work that federal investigators already reported years ago. And when they looked into the fraud, they found far more than what DOGE is now trumpeting. DOGE says its review found abuse including filings made by people with birthdates indicating they were just children, over the age of 115 or not even born yet. The Department of Labor’s own inspector general found major problems in pandemic unemployment benefits.