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Employment

Employment, General Waste, Improper Payments, Taxes

How Employee Retention Credit Became a Target for Fraud

February 19, 2026 Grigory Menshikov

During the Covid-19 pandemic, Congress enacted several laws intended to provide relief for businesses and individual, including the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act of 2020 and the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA).  The CARES Act included an Employee Retention Tax Credit (ERC) for businesses and tax-exempt organizations that paid wages […]

Employment, General Waste, Government Waste, Improper Payments, Labor, Oversight, Small Business

Estimates of COVID-19 Relief Fraud Continue to Increase

July 26, 2023 Eric Maus

The government’s failure to distribute relief money correctly continues to be unearthed. 

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