The inspector general for the Labor Department on Thursday published a report into fraud during the pandemic, finding billions in false unemployment claims
Some 205,000 Social Security numbers that belonged to dead people were used to claim benefits
Other criminals took the Social Security numbers of criminals and used them to make claims
The office has opened 190,000 investigations related to unemployment insurance fraud, they said in the report
Separately, the Justice Department on Thursday said 1,000 people have now been charged for fraudulently claiming unemployment during the pandemic
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