# Federal Response to COVID-19 (GAO issue page)

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**Page title:** Federal Response to COVID-19 | U.S. GAO

"The federal government provided about $4.65 trillion in relief funds for response and recovery efforts."

"The CARES Act includes a provision for GAO to report regularly on pandemic impacts and the federal response."

"GAO's work on the pandemic has resulted in over 200 products and 484 recommendations to Congress and federal agencies." "Over half of these have been closed."

"This has led to at least $43.9 billion in financial benefits, among other improvements."

"GAO's recommendations helped save about $14.8 billion based on program integrity improvements to small business loans."

"The full extent of fraud will never be known with certainty, but estimates indicate hundreds of billions of dollars in fraudulent payments were made."