Some people got money from the government that was not for them.

People had different ideas about the tweet. Some did not believe it, and some were happy. Elon Musk read it many times because he thought it was very strange.

He said the numbers were very bad.

But Ms. Chavez-DeRemer can find reports about this problem from workers in her office. She said bad things about these workers.

They say the government is slow and not smart. They find problems the government didn't find.

A law in 1935 said people without jobs could get money from the government. But states had to collect money and give it to these people.

States help people without jobs. But during COVID, the government gave more money to many people.

Before, some places helped people well, some not so well, and some badly. With the virus, many places were very bad.

Trump signed a law in March 2020 to help people who lost their jobs. But some bad people tried to get money from the law in a wrong way. The government told the states that many people were using fake names to get the money.

The memo also said states could make a special paper for people whose name was used to get money they should not have.

Some people got money by mistake. This was because of wrong birthdays.

The paper from 2023 says: Many claims were not for people older than 100. They were fake records of claims that were not real.

A person from the Labor Department did not answer questions. They did not say how they found the problem.

DOGE found fake claims for money. It was $382 million. This was a small amount. Other people found more fake claims before.

In 2022, the government said people took a lot of money. They said it was more than 45 billion dollars. Later, another group said it was much more, maybe 100 billion or 135 billion dollars.

Amy Traub says, "Many people know this. It was in the news a lot. People talked about it in meetings."

DOGE has new ideas that are similar to old ideas. The old ideas were about money for people who were dead or very old. But the old ideas were not true.

DOGE is not good to tell people about problems, like when people lie to get money.

Jessica Reidl writes about waste in the government. She thinks there is a lot of cheating with unemployment money. But she does not trust a group called DOGE. She says they do not work well.

Reidl says, "When DOGE says old dead people get money from the government, I don't believe him." He says, "DOGE is often wrong about this."

She said states made new rules to stop people from taking money when they lost jobs in the pandemic.

Some people who know about money say the country might have money problems. So, people think about losing their jobs. Traub says this is bad for a program that helps people find jobs. Maybe they want people to not like the help for people without jobs. This help is very important now.