$5.4 billion in covid aid may have gone to firms using ineligible Social Security numbers, report says

The U.S. government may have awarded roughly $5.4 billion in coronavirus aid to small businesses with potentially ineligible Social Security numbers, offering the latest indication that Washington's haste earlier in the pandemic opened the door for widespread waste, fraud and abuse. In the latest example, the PRAC found that SBA failed to prevent a wave of…