We’ve got a lot of work still to do, right? So, if it runs out in 2025, for some cases, that’s going to be a problem,” Horowitz said. “We’re already three years since the beginning of the benefits going out. Michael Horowitz, chair of the federal Pandemic Response Accountability Committee, told the House Ways and Means Committee this month that extending the statute of limitations would give investigators and prosecutors more time to pursue groups and individuals implicated in unemployment fraud.
And so in the context of that, why not give law enforcement and prosecutors that extra time.” “This is the largest fraud scheme ever perpetrated on the taxpayers in the history of the United States. “This is a once-in-a-century fraud scheme,” said McGregor Scott, who was appointed California’s fraud special counsel by Gov. Government watchdogs are pleading with Congress to act, asking House lawmakers in two public hearings held this year to give prosecutors an additional five years to pursue fraudsters who took money that should have gone to unemployed Americans during the pandemic. The statute of limitations for many pandemic-related unemployment insurance fraud investigations is set to expire in 2025.
Just a small percentage of the at least $60 billion in unemployment payments estimated to be lost to fraud during the pandemic has been recovered, and time is running out to prosecute those who committed the crime.
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