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"Since its formation in 2020 the PRAC has time and again alerted federal agencies, Congress, and the American public to the lessons learned from the pandemic and our recommendations to help strengthen Federal programs from fraud, waste, and abuse."
“You cannot fight today’s fraud issues with yesterday’s tools.”
-PRAC Executive Director Dieffenbach
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Our work generates results
We’ve supported over 1,000 investigations into over 23,000 subjects, with an estimated potential fraud loss of $2.4 billion. Along with our Inspectors General partners, we’ve issued 945 pandemic-related reports with 1,929 recommendations and over $113.3 billion in total monetary findings. We uncovered the use of over 69,000 questionable Social Security numbers to obtain $5.4 billion in relief loans and grants. We built a risk model and automated process to halve the review time for Treasury Office of Inspector General auditors tasked with overseeing a $150 billion relief program, helping them to identify $2.2 billion in questioned costs.
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Our work prevents fraud
We and our partners launched the Blueprint for Enhanced Program Integrity. Check out Chapters One, Two, and Three of this how-to guide to learn how agencies, Congress, and the oversight community can better prevent and respond to fraud. We’ve also shared insights revealing how significant data gaps and reliability issues make it challenging to track how communities allocated and spent $2.65 billion in pandemic relief funding.
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Data-driven insights fuel our initiatives
Our data analytics center delivers unparalleled analytic, audit, and investigative support to dozens of federal partners, with access to 1.6 billion records across public and non-public datasets. We use this data, along with thousands of public hotline tips, to help our 50-agent PRAC Fraud Task Force investigate fraud.
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PRAC Fraud Task Force in action
Our PRAC Fraud Task Force uses our leading-edge analytics platform to hold fraudsters accountable and recover taxpayer dollars:
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Empowering partners, protecting taxpayer dollars
We’ve supported our oversight partners in the following ways:
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We issued a report revealing how unemployment insurance fraud, estimated by the Government Accountability Office at up to $135 billion, exploited systemic weaknesses during the pandemic through sophisticated schemes and methods.
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We helped identify over 90 potential fraud schemes targeting the Department of Housing and Urban Development pandemic relief programs. Some of those schemes were found in an investigation resulting in the highest number of bribery charges issued in a single day by the Department of Justice.
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Behind the scenes: PRAC’s proactive approach
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We developed a risk model that helped the Small Business Administration OIG triage a surge of 6,000 weekly hotline complaints during the pandemic, saving valuable time.
This congressional update provides information from Executive Director Dieffenbach’s March 11, 2025, , as well as PRAC Chair Michael Horowitz’s September 10, 2024, and will be available on our .
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