Bill > HR1163

This bill aims to provide incentives for states to recover fraudulently paid federal and state unemployment compensation. The key provisions include: 1. Allowing states to retain 25% of any amounts recovered from fraudulent pandemic unemployment assistance, federal pandemic unemployment compensation, and pandemic emergency unemployment compensation payments, which can be used to modernize unemployment systems, reimburse administrative costs, hire fraud investigators, and conduct other program integrity activities. 2. Permitting states to use up to 5% of any overpayment recoveries or contributions collected due to investigations to fund activities related to deterring, detecting, and preventing improper payments, as well as modernizing unemployment technology and assisting with timely and accurate administration of the state's unemployment compensation law. 3. Requiring states to use certain data matching systems, such as the National Directory of New Hires and the State Information Data Exchange System, to identify and prevent unemployment fraud. 4. Extending emergency state staffing flexibility for personnel standards on a merit basis through 2030 for the purposes of detecting, pursuing, and recovering fraudulent overpayments under federal pandemic unemployment compensation programs. 5. Establishing a 10-year statute of limitations for criminal charges or civil enforcement actions related to unemployment compensation fraud.

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https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/1163/all-info