The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration yesterday released The Earned Income Tax Credit Program Has Made Advances; However, Alternatives to Traditional Compliance Methods Are Needed to Stop Billions of Dollars in Erroneous Payments (2009-40-024), which notes that the IRS paid out $10 billion to $12 billion in erroneous EITC payments in 2006 (out of $43.7 billion in EITC claims).
