Federal employees are going online to sell mass transit fare cards the government buys for them, congressional auditors say.Employees also are exaggerating their commuting costs, and some continue to receive transportation subsidies after leaving the government.
Abuses in the mass transit benefits program for government workers are wasting tens of millions of dollars (euros) each year, says Congress' Government Accountability Office.
Using seven agencies' mass transit records, investigators found at least $17 million in fraudulent transit benefits claimed in the Washington metropolitan area during 2006. That amount "could be millions more" if fraud exists in the dozens of agencies the GAO did not review, auditors say in testimony prepared for a Senate hearing Tuesday.
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