Unemployment Integrity Act of 2025
Summary
What This Bill Does
The Unemployment Integrity Act adds work-search and program-integrity conditions to state unemployment compensation systems. Claimants must, if requested, respond to work-related requests, schedule and attend interviews, participate in reemployment services, and comply with reasonable requests such as drug testing or skill assessments. Employers may voluntarily report claimant noncompliance to the state. The Labor Secretary must study how increasing random audits under the Beneficiary Accuracy Management program affects administration. Extended and emergency unemployment funds may not be transferred to a state unless Labor certifies that the state has adopted the new requirements.
Who Benefits and How
State unemployment agencies benefit from clearer authority to condition benefits on interviews, reemployment services, and reasonable work-related requests. Employers seeking workers benefit from a voluntary pathway to report claimants who do not respond or participate. Unemployment program integrity advocates benefit from more audits and compliance conditions tied to extended benefits. Federal taxpayers benefit if improper unemployment payments decline through stronger eligibility enforcement.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Unemployment claimants must respond to requests, attend interviews, participate in services, and comply with reasonable requests to remain eligible. State workforce agencies must update eligibility rules, employer reporting systems, and audit procedures. The Labor Department must conduct the Beneficiary Accuracy Management audit study. States that fail to adopt the requirements risk losing transfers for extended or emergency unemployment compensation.
Key Provisions
- Requires unemployment claimants to respond to work-related requests and attend interviews or reemployment services.
- Authorizes reasonable requests including drug testing and skill assessments.
- Creates a voluntary employer reporting method for claimant noncompliance.
- Conditions extended unemployment compensation transfers on Labor certification of state adoption.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Requires unemployment claimants to respond to work-related requests, attend interviews and reemployment services, comply with reasonable requests such as drug testing or skill assessments, enables employer noncompliance reports, and conditions extended unemployment transfers on state adoption.
Key Policy Areas
Unemployment Insurance, Labor, Program Integrity
Primary Purpose
Requires unemployment claimants to respond to work-related requests, attend interviews and reemployment services, comply with reasonable requests such as drug testing or skill assessments, enables employer noncompliance reports, and conditions extended unemployment transfers on state adoption.
Policy Domains
Resolution provisions
Identified Gains
- State unemployment agencies
- Employers seeking workers
- Program integrity advocates
- Federal taxpayers
Identified Costs
- Unemployment claimants
- State workforce agencies
- Department of Labor
- Noncomplying states
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMr. Edwards (for himself, Mr. Scott Franklin of Florida, and …
Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Introduced in House
Stakeholder Effects
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State unemployment agencies, State workforce agencies
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
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