Fraud Prevention Alert: Pre-Award Vetting Using Data Analytics Could Have Prevented Over $79B in Potentially Fraudulent Pandemic Relief Payments
Other · Pandemic Response Accountability Committee · 2025-06-04 · about Multiple Agencies
Report
Title
Fraud Prevention Alert: Pre-Award Vetting Using Data Analytics Could Have Prevented Over $79B in Potentially Fraudulent Pandemic Relief Payments
Submitting OIG
Pandemic Response Accountability Committee
Component agency
Multiple Agencies
Type
Other
Publication date
2025-06-04
Summary
This PRAC fraud prevention alert focused on some of the largest pandemic relief programs: the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loan (COVID-19 EIDL) program and Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), and the Department of Labor’s (DOL) pandemic-related Unemployment Insurance (UI) programs. In 2023, the SBA Office of Inspector General (OIG) and the DOL OIG estimated that the total amount of fraud and improper payments for these programs is nearly $400 billion.