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Overseeing more than $5 trillion in pandemic-related programs and spending is a big job.
Learn how we at the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee, along with others in the federal oversight community, are getting it done.
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Some businesses had their loans forgiven, others have to pay them back. Search for a borrower's name and find out more.
Whose Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans were forgiven?
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The Pandemic Analytics Center of Excellence (PACE) is changing the way watchdogs work. Learn how we’re using data in new ways to uncover fraud schemes.
We’re cracking down on fraud with advanced data analytics.
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Find out using the State and Local Fiscal Recovery Fund, Shuttered Venue Operators Grants, and Restaurant Revitalization Fund dashboards.
Curious how COVID relief funds were spent in your community?
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Policymakers: Incorporate strategies from Chapter 2 to protect programs against fraud and improper payments. These measures can be incorporated into emergency and non-emergency funded programs.
Blueprint for Enhanced Program Integrity Chapter 2
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Our mission to understand communities’ experiences with pandemic funding and programs brought us next to Coeur d’Alene, ID, where we gathered valuable lessons learned to improve federal emergency response programs. Read the report to learn how this city used pandemic relief funding to respond to and mitigate the effects of COVID-19.
Focus on Community: Coeur d’Alene, Idaho
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The PRAC is full steam ahead, applying innovative approaches to oversight work and providing deep program insights in ways that can be used now, and in the future. See highlights and view the full report on the work we’ve done over the latest six-month reporting period.
Report to Congress: October 1, 2023 through March 31, 2024
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We’re drawing up a Blueprint of best practices based on lessons learned from the pandemic to help program administrators develop and implement programs with strong internal controls. Check out our first chapter of resources from the oversight community on strategies for designing programs in the future.
Blueprint for Enhanced Program Integrity Chapter 1
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Our mission to understand communities’ experiences with pandemic funding and programs brought us to Springfield, MA, where we gathered valuable lessons learned to improve federal emergency response programs. Read the report to learn how this city used pandemic relief funding to respond to and mitigate the effects of COVID-19.
Focus on Community: Springfield, Massachusetts
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Fraudsters took advantage of an already challenged unemployment insurance (UI) system during the pandemic. How did they commit the fraud? How did they conceal it? We sampled 45 fraud cases to learn about the schemes and methods they used, and to explore what can be done to address vulnerabilities in UI benefits programs for the future. Read our report to find out more.
Why Unemployment Insurance Fraud Surged During the Pandemic
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Where did Pandemic Relief Funds Go?
This visualization and the spreadsheet do not reflect the approximately $27B in pandemic funding recalled under the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023, signed on June 3, 2023.
Tracking Pandemic Spending
Download the spreadsheet to get more details on the categories and funding shown above.
See the six laws that funded pandemic relief programs.
Explore the relationship between the laws and the programs they funded with our interactive visualization.
