COVID Unemployment Fraud Statute of Limitations & Recovery Task Force

Current understanding

To be populated as evidence accumulates.

2026-09-16 — Federal-State Unemployment Compensation (UC) Program; Data Availability: cross-connection with unemployment-compensation-program-oversight: Expanded federal access to confidential state UC data supports the kind of post-hoc fraud recovery work contemplated by COVID-era unemployment fraud recovery efforts. (novelty: 3)
2026-03-05 — Stop Unemployment Fraud Act: cross-connection with stop-unemployment-fraud-act: Both address unemployment-insurance fraud enforcement/integrity, though the COVID-era measure focuses on statute of limitations and recovery while HR7847’s mechanism remains undisclosed. (novelty: 2)
2026-06-29 — Recover COVID Unemployment Fraud in Banks Act: Recover COVID Unemployment Fraud in Banks Act (introduced) would extend the statute of limitations to 10 years for both criminal and civil enforcement of pandemic unemployment insurance fraud (PUA, FPUC, MEUC, PEUC) and establish an intergovernmental task force to identify and claw back fraudulent payments held by banks and state unclaimed-property agencies. (novelty: 3)