# COVID-19: Data Sharing Project Finds Billions Paid to Same Likely Fraudsters under Both the Unemployment Insurance and Economic Injury Disaster Loan Programs
> **Audit** by Department of Labor OIG · 2024-12-05
> *About: Department of Labor*
## Report
- **Title:** COVID-19: Data Sharing Project Finds Billions Paid to Same Likely Fraudsters under Both the Unemployment Insurance and Economic Injury Disaster Loan Programs
- **Submitting OIG:** Department of Labor OIG
- **Component agency:** Department of Labor
- **Type:** Audit
- **Publication date:** 2024-12-05

## Recommendations

- **Rec 001** (Open): We recommend the Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training to evaluate its authority to share data and develop fraud prevention resources and controls with other federal entities, including SBA, that include data sharing mechanisms to detect and…
- **Rec 002** (Closed): We recommend the Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training collaborate with SBA to conduct a joint study to assess and identify the UI claim data elements that should be shared for data matching with disaster program data elements for the…
## Source
- [oversight.gov report page](https://www.oversight.gov/reports/audit/covid-19-data-sharing-project-finds-billions-paid-same-likely-fraudsters-under-both)
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