Reports

The Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training should amplify its guidance to states that strongly encourages them to enlist employers to assist state officials identify the continued eligibility of individuals who refuse to return to work by providing technical assistance and sharing best practices on processes and messaging that will increase employer reporting.

The Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training should include CARES Act UI transactions in the BAM or develop an alternative methodology to reliably estimate improper payments for those programs.

The Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training should develop oversight processes that ensure states are administering the CARES Act UI programs so as to ensure payments to eligible individuals in a timely manner and that states are submitting accurate reports.

The Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training should issue guidance directing states to provide access to state UI claimant data, in order to prevent and detect fraud.