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2024

July

How did data analytics lead to a $135 million recovery?

Jul 24, 2024

Proper protection against improper payments

Jul 24, 2024

June

A lot can happen in 6 months

Jun 20, 2024

What on earth is going on in the world of pandemic fraud? ✈️

Jun 11, 2024

Ken Dieffenbach Appointed as the Executive Director of the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee

Jun 06, 2024

May

How can we build stronger government programs?

May 23, 2024

PRAC Executive Director Jenny Rone named USDA Deputy Inspector General

May 06, 2024

April

Our wheels are in motion

Apr 30, 2024

UI fraud was rampant

Apr 16, 2024

March

Statement by PRAC Chair Michael E. Horowitz on Bipartisan Legislation Introduced in the Senate, the “Government Spending Oversight Act of 2024”

Mar 28, 2024

Update: How did pandemic relief impact these six communities?

Mar 28, 2024

Statement from PRAC Chair Michael E. Horowitz on the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2024

Mar 22, 2024

Committing pandemic fraud? That's madness. 🏀🚨

Mar 20, 2024

Oversight can be done faster. We can help.

Mar 05, 2024

February

A Leap of Fraud

Feb 29, 2024

2023

December

Flurry of Fraud ❄️

Dec 28, 2023

PRAC's Semiannual Report to Congress is Here

Dec 11, 2023

November

We asked the question

Nov 29, 2023

Every week of the year...

Nov 17, 2023

October

Many fraudsters were mighty shellfish

Oct 27, 2023

BREAKING: Sentencing announced in PRAC Fraud Task Force case

Oct 24, 2023

TODAY: What should we do about identity fraud?

Oct 24, 2023

Re: What should we do about identity fraud?

Oct 19, 2023

What should we do about identity fraud?

Oct 11, 2023

September

What was it like distributing trillions of dollars in grants and contracts?

Sep 28, 2023

Did we have the medical help we needed?

Sep 21, 2023

Peek into programs 👀

Sep 15, 2023

Don't dip into fraud even once

Sep 06, 2023

August

Today’s Task Force announcement: what you need to know

Aug 23, 2023

July

Jul 25, 2023

What happened in these six communities?

Jul 06, 2023

June

What have we been up to the last 6 months?

Jun 05, 2023

Welcome to Pandemic Family Fraud

Jun 01, 2023

May

UPDATE: We've identified $5.4 billion in potentially fraudulent pandemic loans using SSN data

May 11, 2023

Hollywood walk of fraud

May 03, 2023

April

How did pandemic relief affect the way we're taxed?

Apr 18, 2023

Pandemic fraudsters on the inside

Apr 06, 2023

March

It's been three years

Mar 27, 2023

Two $800B programs - PPP and EIP

Mar 23, 2023

Get your sunglasses out - it's Sunshine Week ☀️

Mar 15, 2023

Improper payment or fraud?

Mar 01, 2023

February

Meant 2 Be (audited)

Feb 14, 2023

We're bringing our updates straight to Congress

Feb 07, 2023

January

Fraud Alert: We've identified $5.4 billion in potentially fraudulent pandemic loans using SSN data

Jan 30, 2023

2022

December

You're in our top 1% of oversight enthusiasts

Dec 30, 2022

re: today's event

Dec 15, 2022

We read 114 reports so you don't have to

Dec 06, 2022

Join us next week!

Dec 06, 2022

How was telehealth impacted by the pandemic?

Dec 01, 2022

November

It's Fraud Awareness Week

Nov 18, 2022

Special Invite to Today's Event

Nov 03, 2022

Conviction in PRAC Fraud Task Force Case

Nov 03, 2022

October

Spooky schemes and funded frights

Oct 31, 2022

PRAC announces retirement of Executive Director Robert A. Westbrooks

Oct 25, 2022

How are we keeping up the PACE?

Oct 20, 2022

September

How did federal agencies give out pandemic funds?

Sep 14, 2022

August

We made the front page

Aug 19, 2022

BREAKING: President Biden signs bills giving watchdogs more time to fight pandemic fraud

Aug 05, 2022

July

Applying for pandemic benefits can take a lot of time. This event recap won't.

Jul 28, 2022

We've got new data dashboards for you to explore

Jul 01, 2022

June

re: tomorrow's event

Jun 28, 2022

How do you track pandemic aid at the state and local levels?

Jun 22, 2022

re: today's event

Jun 15, 2022

Starting in 30 minutes ⏳

Jun 14, 2022

Mark your calendars

Jun 10, 2022

What have we learned about reaching people who need pandemic relief?

Jun 08, 2022

May

It’s SARC week: Here's what we've been up to for the last 6 months.

May 31, 2022

The pandemic is about more than hard numbers

May 12, 2022

April

Paycheck Protection...Problems?

Apr 21, 2022

March

Did you catch the PRAC on NBC News?

Mar 31, 2022

Reflecting on two years

Mar 25, 2022

PPP loan forgiveness: How do the top lenders compare?

Mar 24, 2022

It's Sunshine Week! ☀️

Mar 14, 2022

It's been one year...

Mar 11, 2022

February

What kind of pandemic relief did the Super Bowl's host city get? 🏈

Feb 11, 2022

It's Identity Theft Awareness Week! For us, it's a 365-day-a-year thing.

Feb 02, 2022

January

Where are they now? Here's 7 pandemic relief programs that ended

Jan 20, 2022

2021

December

How did states handle the surge in jobless benefits?

Dec 16, 2021

TODAY: Did pandemic relief help Americans connect in the crisis?

Dec 15, 2021

Did the pandemic response help Americans connect in a crisis?

Dec 09, 2021

November

Here's what we've been up to the last six months

Nov 30, 2021

State and local govts still have $15B in CARES Act funds to spend

Nov 23, 2021

Making sense of $5,000,000,000,000

Nov 08, 2021

October

New Report: Dead Ends in Pandemic Relief Award Data

Oct 20, 2021

RE: We're heading to Congress

Oct 19, 2021

We're heading to Congress

Oct 15, 2021

Get caught in our new web 🕷️...site

Oct 08, 2021

Have housing assistance programs helped during the pandemic?

Oct 04, 2021

September

re: Autumn updates from the PRAC 🍂

Sep 30, 2021

Autumn updates from the PRAC 🍂

Sep 30, 2021

What did you miss?

Sep 22, 2021

How have state, local, and Tribal governments spent $150 billion?

Sep 16, 2021

New report! 5 lessons from overseeing $5 trillion

Sep 01, 2021

August

Re: Did pandemic relief reach the underserved?

Aug 11, 2021

Using data to find pandemic fraud - it's an Olympian effort 🏅

Aug 10, 2021

Your August 4th newsletter has arrived

Aug 04, 2021

July

Did pandemic relief reach the underserved?

Jul 30, 2021

PRAC Chair Michael Horowitz testifies to House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

Jul 29, 2021

How many PPP loans have been forgiven so far?

Jul 21, 2021

More than 4 million PPP loans have been forgiven

Jul 21, 2021

Fighting Identity Theft: New website feature, new working group!

Jul 15, 2021

How did states handle COVID relief?

Jul 08, 2021

June

Here it is...Your June 15th PRAC Newsletter!

Jun 15, 2021

May

New Coronavirus Relief Fund data has arrived 💰

May 21, 2021

Hot off the press - your May 19 newsletter

May 19, 2021

How did detention facilities handle COVID-19?

May 12, 2021

April

We summarized 103 pandemic oversight reports so you don’t have to

Apr 29, 2021

Hot off the press - your April 14th newsletter

Apr 14, 2021

What does one year of pandemic oversight look like?

Apr 01, 2021

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