UPDATE: Even with a real zip code, it takes 7 hours to report on $2,000 contract

Published January 6, 2010 5:00am ET



As if dozens of fraudulent congressional districts, phony stimulus jobs, and fake zip codes found on Recovery.gov aren’t enough, we now learn that the website used by stimulus recipients to report their use of federal money is also a mess.

The owner of a small Midwestern firm told The Examiner that it took him and his staff at least seven hours to record receipt of a $2,000 stimulus contract. The website – www.federalreporting.gov – is so poorly designed, he said, that it kept timing out before they could finish inputting their data which, by the way, is done after the money has all been spent. In addition, the website apparently only accepts stimulus spending reports ten days out of every quarter.

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