Bill > S1587

This bill, the Protecting Taxpayers and Victims of Unemployment Fraud Act, 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 recovered funds from fraudulent COVID-19 unemployment compensation payments, which can be used to modernize unemployment systems, reimburse administrative costs, hire fraud investigators and prosecutors, and conduct other program integrity activities. 2. Expanding the permitted uses of state unemployment funds to include deterring, detecting, and preventing improper payments, properly classifying employees, modernizing technology infrastructure, and improving timely and accurate administration of state unemployment compensation laws. 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 prevent and detect fraud and improper payments in unemployment compensation programs. 4. Extending the emergency state staffing flexibility to allow modifications to personnel standards on a merit basis for detecting, pursuing, and recovering fraudulent overpayments under federal pandemic unemployment compensation programs through December 31, 2030. 5. Harmonizing fraud enforcement by setting a 10-year statute of limitations for criminal charges or civil enforcement actions related to fraud in unemployment compensation.

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