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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 6133037" data-attributes="member: 12952">[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jun/6/feds-paid-80-billion-bogus-social-security-numbers-covid-19-pandemic/[/URL]Federal agencies paid out nearly $80 billion in pandemic money to applications that used stolen or invalid Social Security numbers, according to a new watchdog report Wednesday that said it should have been easy to stop them.The watchdog said basic steps, such as asking for applicants to provide birth dates and then running their names, numbers and dates against Social Security databases to make sure they all matched, could “readily” have prevented the potential fraud.</blockquote>