A recently released Department of Housing and Urban Development report shows that over $5 billion in taxpayer funds have gone to “questionable” rental assistance recipients during the final year of the Biden administration.
The 192-page report is dated Dec. 18 and was reported on first by The New York Post.
Among the recipients were roughly 30,000 “deceased tenants” and “thousands” of potential non-citizens, according to the newspaper.
HUD officials said a “large concentration” of the questionable payments went to California, New York and Washington, D.C., with dead recipients getting at least some funds in all 50 states.
Federal officials are characterizing such payments as widespread abuse of taxpayers’ dollars under the Biden administration.
“A massive abuse of taxpayer dollars not only occurred under President [Joe] Biden’s watch, but was effectively incentivized by his administration’s failure to implement strong financial controls resulting in billions worth of potential improper payments,” HUD Secretary Scott Turner said in a statement.
