HOUSE BILL 152
Employment sec prgm integrity
EMPLOYMENT SECURITY PROGRAM – Adds to existing law to establish procedures to verify the integrity of the employment security program.
RS30296C1 / H0152
The purpose of this legislation is to enhance program integrity for the state's unemployment insurance program. Covid-19 brought mass unemployment. Unfortunately, it also brought massive amounts of waste, fraud and abuse to our nations’ unemployment programs. Nationally it is estimated that unemployment programs may have lost between $87 billion to $400 billion to fraudulent or wasteful claims. This legislation will require the Department of Labor to perform routine cross checks of existing databases to which the state already has access, like new hire records, death records, prison roles, and others.
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 02/15 | Introduced, read first time, referred to JRA for Printing |
| 02/16 | Reported Printed and Referred to Commerce & Human Resources |