H.R. 8812, Relief for Working Families Act of 2020
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H.R. 8812, the Relief for Working Families Act of 2020, is a bill introduced in the House of Representatives on November 24, 2020 by Ms. Herrera Beutler and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. Its stated purpose is to amend subtitle A of title II of division A of the CARES Act to provide a hardship waiver for certain overpayments of Pandemic Unemployment Assistance. Section 2 provides that the State agency shall waive repayment of amounts to which an individual was not entitled if it determines that the payment was without fault on the part of the individual and that repayment would be contrary to equity and good conscience.
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116TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 8812
To amend subtitle A of title II of division A of the CARES Act to provide
a hardship waiver for certain overpayments of Pandemic Unemployment
Assistance.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
Ms. HERRERA BEUTLER (for herself and Mrs. MURPHY of Florida) introduced
the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means
A BILL
To amend subtitle A of title II of division A of the CARES
Act to provide a hardship waiver for certain overpay-
ments of Pandemic Unemployment Assistance.
1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Relief for Working
5 Families Act of 2020’’.
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1 SEC. 2. WAIVER AUTHORITY FOR CERTAIN OVERPAYMENTS
2 OF PANDEMIC UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE.
3 (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 2102(d) of the CARES
4 Act (15 U.S.C. 9021(d)) is amended by adding at the end
5 the following:
6 ‘‘(4) WAIVER AUTHORITY.—In the case of indi-
7 viduals who have received amounts of Pandemic Un-
8 employment Assistance to which they were not enti-
9 tled, the State shall require such individuals to repay
10 such amounts to the State agency, except that the
11 State agency shall waive such repayment if it deter-
12 mines that—
13 ‘‘(A) the payment of such Pandemic Un-
14 employment Assistance was without fault on the
15 part of any such individual; and
16 ‘‘(B) such repayment would be contrary to
17 equity and good conscience.’’.
18 (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by
19 this section shall take effect as if included in the enact-
20 ment of the CARES Act (Public Law 116–136).
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