$19 Billion dollars unemployment overpayments? What gives? (inside).

I read this article in Yahoo News this morning and could not believe what I was reading. Unemployment checks, totaling more than $19.7 billion dollars, have been issued to people who are employed. Appears to be a lot of fraud going on. Even unemployment checks have been sent to a prison inmate and his family cashed the checks. No wonder our country is in the financial sitution it is in.

Question: where were the watchdogs, when the Federal Government issued unemployment checks to underserving people and will the money ever be recovered?