H.R. 723, Reducing Fraud in Unemployment Assistance Act
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H.R. 723, the Reducing Fraud in Unemployment Assistance Act, introduced in the House of Representatives on February 2, 2021 by Mr. Posey and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. The bill amends title III of the Social Security Act to require States to compare information regarding Federal inmates for purposes of combating fraud in unemployment compensation. It adds to Section 303 a requirement that a State agency regularly compare its list of individuals receiving unemployment compensation with lists of prisoners in Federal and State custody. A further amendment concerns overpayments of Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation recovered by the State.
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117TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 723
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.
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 com-
pensation, and for other purposes.
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 ‘‘Reducing Fraud in
5 Unemployment Assistance Act’’.
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1 SEC. 2. INFORMATION SHARING REQUIREMENT.
2 (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 303 of the Social Security
3 Act (42 U.S.C. 503) is amended by adding at the end the
4 following:
5 ‘‘(n) For purposes of subsection (a), the unemploy-
6 ment compensation law of a State must provide that the
7 State agency charged with the administration of the State
8 law shall—
9 ‘‘(1) enter into an agreement with the Attorney
10 General under which the list of individuals receiving
11 unemployment compensation under the State law
12 shall be regularly compared with a list of each pris-
13 oner in Federal custody at a Federal correction fa-
14 cility within that State;
15 ‘‘(2) establish a regular comparison of such list
16 of individuals with a list of each prisoner in the cus-
17 tody of that State at a correctional facility in that
18 State; and
19 ‘‘(3) use the results of each such comparison to
20 investigate and prosecute fraud, waste, and abuse of
21 unemployment compensation under the State law.’’.
22 (b) RECOVERY OF OVERPAYMENTS BY TREASURY.—
23 (1) PANDEMIC UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE.—
24 Section 2102(f)(2)(A) of the CARES Act (15 U.S.C.
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25 9021(f)(2)(A)) is amended by inserting ‘‘, less any
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1 overpayments of assistance recovered by the State’’
2 after ‘‘agreement’’.
3 (2) FEDERAL PANDEMIC UNEMPLOYMENT COM-
4 PENSATION.—Section 2104(d)(1)(A)(i) of such Act
5 (15 U.S.C. 9023(d)(1)(A)(i)) is amended by insert-
6 ing ‘‘, less any overpayments of Federal Pandemic
7 Unemployment Compensation recovered by the
8 State’’ after ‘‘agreement’’.
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