Pre-Payment Fraud Prevention and Treasury Data Access Act

Current understanding

Legislation would require federal agencies and federally funded state/local benefit programs to screen payees against an expanded Treasury Do Not Pay system before disbursing funds, and would authorize Treasury to access taxpayer return information and Social Security Administration data for improper-payment prevention. The bill pairs the new data authorities with statutory use, redisclosure, and safeguard limits. For individuals, this centralizes more personal identifiers (SSNs, tax data, death and eligibility records) inside a Treasury pre-payment screening layer; for agencies and state program administrators, it creates a mandatory verification step and new data-sharing obligations with Treasury.

Evidence log

• 2026-06-09 — Pre-Payment Fraud Prevention and Treasury Data Access Act: cross-connection with preventing-tax-fraud-identity-theft-act: Both expand Treasury/IRS-adjacent data use for fraud prevention; this bill authorizes Treasury access to taxpayer data for improper-payment screening. (novelty: 3)

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