The office recommended in its report that more work be done to provide assurance about the payments. But Press said that “may not get us to the point of being able to put a single dollar figure on it”. RNZ Checkpoint Real estate agents were under fire in February for not repaying millions of dollars in wage subsidies, despite record property prices and a booming market. “It is fair to say that is not easy work to do,” he said. Evidence on the fraud risk of similar schemes that had been adopted overseas was also lacking, he said. “I don’t think anyone has been able ... to put a definitive figure on what the level of abuse has been in those schemes.”