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House subcommittee urges extension of CARES-era statute of limitations to prosecute pandemic UI fraud
Summary
Witnesses and members told the House Ways and Means Work & Welfare subcommittee that criminal prosecutions and civil recoveries of pandemic-era unemployment insurance fraud hinge on extending a CARES Act–related statute of limitations that expires March 27, 2025.
The House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Work and Welfare opened a hearing urging Congress to extend the statute of limitations for CARES Act–related unemployment insurance (UI) fraud to preserve ongoing criminal investigations and recoveries.
The hearing’s chair emphasized the looming deadline and said Congress “must act to extend the statute of limitations.” That deadline, members and witnesses warned, threatens to close the window on thousands of federal and state investigations now under way.
The subcommittee heard testimony that pandemic-era emergency benefits were a target for large-scale criminal rings and that prosecutors and auditors need more time to pursue complex cases. Haywood Talcove, chief executive officer of LexisNexis Special Services Inc., told the committee that criminal networks used stolen personally identifiable information and that the scale of fraud exceeded the capacity of existing recovery programs.…
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