Reducing Fraud in Unemployment Assistance Act

Bill: 117-hr-723
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Posey, Bill [R-FL-8]
Introduced: 2021-02-02
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Cardiovascular and respiratory health

Correctional facilities and imprisonment

Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation

Emergency medical services and trauma care

Fraud offenses and financial crimes

Government information and archives

Infectious and parasitic diseases

State and local finance

State and local government operations

Unemployment
Latest action: action_date: 2021-02-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

Summaries:
action_date: 2021-02-02
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Reducing Fraud in Unemployment Assistance Act</b></p> <p>This bill sets forth provisions to combat fraud by federal inmates with respect to unemployment compensation.</p> <p>The bill requires a state's unemployment compensation law to provide that the state's agency in charge of administering unemployment compensation must (1) enter into an agreement with the Attorney General under which the list of individuals receiving unemployment compensation within that state shall be regularly compared with a list of each prisoner in federal and state custody at a federal or state correctional facility within that state; and (2) use the results of each such comparison to investigate and prosecute fraud, waste, and abuse of unemployment compensation under the state's law.</p> <p>The full federal share of payments to states for extended and regular unemployment compensation shall exclude any overpayment of pandemic unemployment assistance, federal pandemic unemployment compensation, and mixed earner unemployment compensation recovered by a state.</p>

tv_txt: I 117th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 723 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES February 2, 2021 Mr. Posey introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means A BILL To amend title III of the Social Security Act to require States to compare information regarding Federal inmates for purposes of combating fraud in unemployment compensation, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Reducing Fraud in Unemployment Assistance Act . 2. Information sharing requirement (a) In general Section 303 of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 503 ) is amended by adding at the end the following: (n) For purposes of subsection (a), the unemployment compensation law of a State must provide that the State agency charged with the administration of the State law shall— (1) enter into an agreement with the Attorney General under which the list of individuals receiving unemployment compensation under the State law shall be regularly compared with a list of each prisoner in Federal custody at a Federal correction facility within that State; (2) establish a regular comparison of such list of individuals with a list of each prisoner in the custody of that State at a correctional facility in that State; and (3) use the results of each such comparison to investigate and prosecute fraud, waste, and abuse of unemployment compensation under the State law. . (b) Recovery of overpayments by Treasury (1) Pandemic unemployment assistance Section 2102(f)(2)(A) of the CARES Act ( 15 U.S.C. 9021(f)(2)(A) ) is amended by inserting , less any overpayments of assistance recovered by the State after agreement . (2) Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation Section 2104(d)(1)(A)(i) of such Act ( 15 U.S.C. 9023(d)(1)(A)(i) ) is amended by inserting , less any overpayments of Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation recovered by the State after agreement .