{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.hatch.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/releases?ContentRecord_id=9c44ba21-8c68-40ce-ba98-cb31e4a1df36", "Hatch On Treasury IG Report On Obamacare Tax Credit Fraud", "2013-12-03", "2013", "2013-12", "Republican", "House", "UT", "Orrin Hatch", "H000338", "www.hatch.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following statement today after the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) issued a report that found that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has an inadequate system in place for preventing fraudulent Affordable Care Act premium subsidy payments from occurring and that people\u2019s personal information would be at risk:\r\n\u201cThe ObamaCare premium subsidies are a fraudsters dream come true.\u00a0\u00a0 As TIGTA found today, the very nature of these credits \u2013 pay first, verify a person\u2019s income later - will lead to potentially hundreds of billions of dollars of improper payments and could put millions of American\u2019s personal information at risk.\u00a0 While the IRS needs to do more to ensure more safeguards are put in place, the fact is that the problems with these tax credits are deeply rooted in the law itself. \u00a0I fear the IRS will never be fully capable of ensuring that these refundable tax credits got to those who are truly eligible.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.hatch.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/releases?ContentRecord_id=9c44ba21-8c68-40ce-ba98-cb31e4a1df36"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.4933228958398104, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}