[5][6] As of 2012, the Claims Conference had administered the following programs, which provide direct payments to Jewish victims of Nazi persecution.
The Conference continually negotiates to expand and liberalize eligibility criteria in order to include additional victims in the programs.
[21][22] On May 19, 2006, The Jewish Chronicle revealed that the Claims Conference highest-paid official, executive vice-president Gideon Taylor, was awarded $437,811 (£240,000) in salary and pension (2004 numbers).
The moral authority of the leading Jewish organizations is gravely weakened by excessively high salaries for top officials.
An organization which boasts that it currently holds in trust $900 million in assets, yet fails to rectify such a condition, must be held accountable for one of the greatest scandals in contemporary Jewish life.
[26] In a 2006 investigative report, it was claimed the organization, while having $1.7 billion in its accounts, finances welfare assistance for only 9,000 survivors while "tens of millions of dollars each year" are spent on management expenses.
[27] Amidst this mounting criticism, the office of Germany's independent federal auditor announced it was considering an investigation of the Claims Conference in June 2008.
The Claims Conference management alerted the Federal Bureau of Investigation as soon as it discovered the fraud in 2009, and continues to cooperate with the FBI.