The government lost a lot of money. A team found this. It was for fake money claims.

But there is a problem. Government workers found the same bad thing before. It was bigger and years ago.

A message on X said some people who were very old or very young got money from the government. This was not true.

People had different ideas about the tweet. Some people didn't believe it, and some people liked it. The person who wrote the tweet said it was very strange, and he read it many times.

He said that the numbers were not good.

But Chávez-DeRemer could see that people in her office said there was cheating.

They say the government is bad and slow. They find fraud the government missed.

A law in 1935 said people could get money if they lost their job. The states would help them get this money.

The government gave extra money to people who lost their jobs because of the sickness.

Normally, help for people without jobs is sometimes good and sometimes bad. When COVID came, many systems were very bad.

Trump made a law in 2020 to help people who lost their jobs because of COVID. But some people used the law in a bad way to get money.

The paper said states can make a fake claim for people whose name was used to get money.

Some people asked for money for babies and very old people. This was not true. It was a mistake with the dates. The government found out about this. They said it was because states changed the birth dates to keep people safe.

The paper says many claims were not for people over 100 years old. They were fake records of bad claims.

Someone from the Labor Department did not answer questions. DOGE did not say how they found the problem or if someone else found it before.

DOGE looked at a longer time. It found $382 million in wrong claims for jobless money. This is a small amount. The police already knew about more.

In 2022, the government said some people took money for jobs they did not have. Later, another group said it was much more money.

Amy says many people know this already.

DOGE says bad things, like before about dead people getting money. But these things are not true.

So DOGE is not good to talk about problems like wrong money claims.

Jessica Reidl writes many articles about saving government money. She thinks the group DOGE is not good.

When DOGE says many dead people get money from the government, I don't believe it, Reidl says. DOGE is often wrong about this.

Traub said states made new rules because people cheated during the pandemic. She asked why Musk's team said the old cheating was new.

People who run businesses and people who study money say the country might have money problems. So, it's normal to think about people losing their jobs. Someone is saying bad things about a very good program. Maybe they want people to not support help for jobless people. But this help is very important now.