Tech Firm ID.me Overstated Jobless Fraud to Win US Contracts, House Finds
Source: ID.me
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Tech company ID.me misled US officials and the public about processing delays and the scope of fraud in the unemployment insurance system, and used those claims to secure more government business, a House investigation found.
Early results from Democrats on the House Oversight Committee, released Thursday, show that ID.me’s estimate of $400 billion in fraud from pandemic-related jobless aid relied on figures that didn’t exist when the company first publicized the number. At least 25 state agencies separately spent nearly $45 million on the company’s facial recognition technology, according to the committee, even though the software potentially blocked “hundreds of thousands” of unemployed Americans from receiving federal help.