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Witnesses urge front‑end identity checks, sustained tech funding and trained merit staff to curb UI fraud
Summary
At the same House Ways and Means Subcommittee hearing, private vendors, state labor officials and front-line UI workers advocated identity verification, funding for IT modernization and preservation of merit-based state staff as key defenses against pandemic-era schemes.
Witnesses and members at a House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Work and Welfare hearing described concrete prevention measures they said would reduce future unemployment insurance fraud and improve responses during surges.
Haywood Talcove, chief executive of LexisNexis Special Services Inc., urged three core changes: apply identity verification at the front end, end self‑certification, and continuously authenticate beneficiaries. “We finally we must finally understand that pay and chase does not work,” Talcove testified, and he recommended private‑sector techniques — continuous authentication and data analytics — be applied to government payments.
State officials described investments and operational practices that, they said, reduced improper payments. Anna Hu, director of the Missouri Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, told the committee that Missouri…
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