According to experts, the value of abuses of the extra unemployment benefits introduced in the United States during the epidemic (which can also be considered a kind of giant basic income experiment) reaches 400 billion dollars, a significant part of which goes to foreign criminal organizations. From this point on, this is not only theft, but also a national security risk, reports Mandiner .
Blake Hall, director of ID.me, said the United States has lost more than $400 billion to aid fraud.
According to the head of the company, the amount represents nearly 50 percent of all subsidies. Haywood Talcove, CEO of LexisNexis Risk Solutions, said that at least 70 percent of the stolen money leaves the country and ends up in the hands of Chinese, Nigerian and Russian criminal syndicates, among others. These groups are definitely supported by the state, added Talcove, who said that a significant part of the money left in the country was stolen by street gangs.
President Biden stated that in order to avoid abuse, they spent 2 billion dollars to modernize the user interface and created the Anti-Fraud Task Force of the Ministry of Justice, as well as placing more emphasis on the protection of personal data.
Fraudsters abuse the welfare system by stealing personal information or simply tricking individuals into voluntarily handing over their personal information, which is used by criminal organizations to impersonate claimants. Criminal organizations then give bank cards to criminals and ask them to withdraw money from ATMs, and then this money often goes abroad as bitcoins.
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