Unemployment fraud from pandemic jobless benefits may have topped $60 billion, according to a new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). The federal watchdog said the Department of Labor (DOL) reported fraud estimates of about $8.5 billion for regular unemployment insurance programs in 2021. However, the government created four new unemployment programs during the COVID-19 pandemic aimed at alleviating the toll on workers. The GAO estimated that if the rate of fraud were extrapolated to total spending across all unemployment insurance programs during the pandemic, the fraud total would come out to more than $60 billion. The federal government paid out aroun
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