Feds paid $80 billion to bogus Social Security numbers during pandemic

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Federal agencies paid out nearly $80 billion in pandemic money to applications that used stolen or invalid Social Security numbers, according to a new watchdog report Wednesday that said it should have been easy to stop them.

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