The Internal Revenue Service said Thursday a review of 1 million claims for the Employee Retention Credit representing $86 billion shows the “vast majority” are at risk of being improper.
  • oakey66@lemmy.world
    146·
    5 months ago

    But giving $1k to people was blasphemous because they could buy groceries and pay rent. This country is an awful place.

  • mozz@mbin.grits.dev
    86·
    5 months ago

    Hey guys I’m starting to think this guy Trump isn’t even all that good at running the money side of the operations

  • EveryoneDiesAlone@lemmy.world
    32·
    5 months ago

    Any companies that make their money helping other people get government benefits, are usually sleazy and to be avoided.

    So it looks like it wasn’t a bunch of widespread individual fraud, but a bunch of sleazy companies popped up selling the “service” of helping companies qualify for these benefits, and basically committed fraud on the small businesses behalf, telling them and the government that said business qualified for these benefits.

    Whenever something shitty happens, there is always a sleaze bag there, makin’ money.

    • Spot@startrek.websiteEnglish
      9·
      5 months ago

      I’ve also known some sleaze bag business owners who seek these kinds of services because they want to find a way to take advantage of programs n things they don’t actually qualify for.

  • ryathal@sh.itjust.works
    10·
    5 months ago

    Covid was amazing for fraud. My state had so much rampant unemployment fraud they essentially gave up on even investigating it. I’m not surprised that other programs also had massive fraud