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Coronavirus Payments To Poor Are Vulnerable To Fraud

The IRS system for distributing Coronavirus relief payments is susceptible to fraud, because the payments of some Americans can be obtained with information easily available to criminals online.

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Tim Mak is NPR's Washington Investigative Correspondent, focused on political enterprise journalism.