Protecting Taxpayers and Victims of Unemployment Fraud Act

Summary

Protecting Taxpayers and Victims of Unemployment Fraud Act This bill addresses fraud and overpayments of pandemic unemployment insurance (UI) benefits, including by providing incentives for states to investigate and recover overpayments of these benefits. Specifically, the bill allows states to retain 25% of any recovered fraudulent overpayments. These retained funds may be used for modernizing unemployment compensation systems and information technology, reimbursing administrative costs, hiring fraud investigators and prosecutors, and for other program integrity activities. Additionally, the bill allows states to retain 5% of any overpayments of regular and extended UI benefits. A state must, in order to retain these overpayments, certify that it has met certain conditions for data matching. Next, the bill extends from 3 to 10 years the time during which states can recover overpayments of pandemic UI benefits. Further, the bill extends flexibilities for states to hire temporary staff on a noncompetitive basis to identify, pursue, and recover fraudulent overpayments. The bill also extends from 5 to 10 years the statute of limitations for federal criminal charges or civil enforcement actions related to UI fraud. Finally, the bill repeals a section of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (as amended by the American Rescue Plan of 2021) that provided funding for UI program integrity activities.

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• Engrossed in House (text)

  Engrossed in House · EN · 11 May 2023

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• Engrossed in House (PDF)

  Engrossed in House · EN · 11 May 2023

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• Passed House

  summary · EN · 11 May 2023

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• Reported in House (text)

  Reported in House · EN · 6 April 2023

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• Reported to House

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• Introduced in House (text)

  Introduced in House · EN · 24 February 2023

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  Introduced in House · EN · 24 February 2023

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 24 February 2023

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