ID.me made “baseless” pandemic fraud claims to win contracts, Congress says

Online verification through ID.me was supposed to help the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) prevent widespread fraud while rushing unemployment benefits to those who needed it most during the pandemic. Instead, wait times to get verified for some stretched up to 10 hours, and in one case in California, actually took three days.
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