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Committee advances bill to speed income verification in public‑assistance fraud investigations
Summary
House Bill 62 would let the Department of Health and Welfare request tax data from the Idaho Tax Commission (via an MOU) to verify income in public assistance fraud probes; the committee voted to send the bill to the floor with a due‑pass recommendation.
Representative Ben Fuhrman, R‑District 30 (Butte and Bingham counties), presented House Bill 62 to the House Health and Welfare Committee and asked members to move the bill to the House floor with a due‑pass recommendation.
Fuhrman clarified that the bill deals with public assistance benefits other than Medicaid. “Everything we're talking about here is things…
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