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Committee clears bill to let Health and Welfare access tax records for public assistance fraud probes
Summary
House Bill 62 would let the Department of Health and Welfare obtain tax information from the state Tax Commission via data‑sharing agreement to verify income in public‑assistance fraud investigations; the committee sent the bill to the House floor with a due‑pass recommendation.
Representative Ben Fuhrman (R., District 30) presented House Bill 62 to the committee and clarified at the outset that the bill concerns public‑assistance fraud—not Medicaid fraud handled by the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (Idaho Code §56‑226).
Fuhrman said field investigators at the Department of Health and Welfare currently must subpoena banks to verify income, a process he said can take 30 days or more and sometimes fails when…
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