Idaho Bills

Adds to existing law to establish procedures to verify the integrity of the employment security program.

The purpose of this legislation is to enhance program integrity for the state's unemployment insurance program. Covid-19 brought mass employment. Unfortunately, it also brought massive amounts of waste, fraud and abuse to our nations' employment programs. Nationally it is estimates that unemployment programs may have lost between$87billionto$400billiontofraudulentorwastefulclaims. ThislegislationwillrequiretheDepartment 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.