To provide incentives for States to recover fraudulently paid Federal and State unemployment compensation, and for other purposes.
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Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill focuses on fraudulent COVID unemployment compensation. It allows or directs recovery of fraudulent payments, gives States more flexibility to use unemployment funds for program administration and anti-fraud work, requires data matching, extends emergency staffing flexibility, harmonizes fraud enforcement, and adjusts CARES Act funding offsets.
Who Benefits and How
Taxpayers, unemployment trust funds, and state workforce agencies benefit from stronger recovery tools, broader program-integrity funding, and data matching. Prosecutors and enforcement agencies receive clearer authority for fraud cases.
Who Bears the Burden and How
People who received fraudulent unemployment payments face greater recovery and enforcement risk. State workforce agencies face new data-matching and implementation duties. Claimants may face additional identity and eligibility checks.
Key Provisions
- Recovers fraudulent COVID unemployment compensation payments
- Lets States use unemployment funds for administration and fraud prevention
- Requires data matching to prevent unemployment compensation fraud
- Extends emergency state staffing flexibility
- Harmonizes civil and criminal fraud enforcement
- Adds budget offset and state fund contingency provisions
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Incentivizes and funds recovery of fraudulent COVID unemployment compensation, expands state program-integrity tools, permits specified unemployment fund uses, extends emergency staffing flexibility, harmonizes fraud enforcement, and offsets spending.
Key Policy Areas
Labor, Unemployment Insurance, Fraud Enforcement, Budget
Primary Purpose
Incentivizes and funds recovery of fraudulent COVID unemployment compensation, expands state program-integrity tools, permits specified unemployment fund uses, extends emergency staffing flexibility, harmonizes fraud enforcement, and offsets spending.
Policy Domains
Unemployment compensation fraud recovery and program integrity
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Taxpayers
- State unemployment agencies
- Unemployment trust funds
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Fraudulent unemployment compensation recipients
- State unemployment agencies
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
ReportedAdditional sponsors: Mr. Sessions, Mr. Posey, Mr. Santos, Ms. Greene …
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the …
Mr. Smith of Missouri (for himself, Mr. Buchanan, Mr. Ferguson, …
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
State unemployment compensation agencies, State unemployment compensation funds
State unemployment compensation agencies faces effects in multiple directions
Fraudulent unemployment compensation recipients
Fraudulent unemployment compensation recipients faces effects in multiple directions
Federal Treasury, Programs funded by unobligated CARES Act balances
Federal Treasury, Programs funded by unobligated CARES Act balances face effects in multiple directions
Federal and state fraud enforcement agencies
Federal and state fraud enforcement agencies faces effects in multiple directions
Unemployment insurance programs
Unemployment insurance programs faces effects in multiple directions
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "the_state"
- → State unemployment compensation agency or State workforce agency
- "the_secretary"
- → Secretary of Labor where Federal unemployment compensation administration is referenced
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