Contact Congress about H.R. 8463: Pre-Payment Fraud Prevention and Treasury Data Access Act

Federal agencies would have to check payments more carefully before sending money. Treasury’s Do Not Pay system would get clearer rules and wider use. First-time recipients of large awards would also face a one-time spending report.

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Pre-Payment Fraud Prevention and Treasury Data Access Act is a Senate bill awaiting final action. The latest recorded action: Received in the Senate.

Latest action on H.R. 8463: Received in the Senate.

Who this affects: This bill mainly affects federal agencies, Treasury, and people or organizations that receive federal money. Agencies would have more steps before approving payments. Recipients of large first-time federal awards could face a new reporting duty. State and local governments, courts, and Congress could also use Treasury’s Do Not Pay system under privacy rules.

Why this matters: Federal money can be lost when agencies pay the wrong person, pay the wrong amount, or miss fraud signs before sending funds. This bill would move more checks earlier in the process, before the money goes out. That could reduce losses, but it could also slow payments or add work for agencies and recipients. The final effect would depend on how Treasury, OMB, and agencies write and use the rules.

Key provisions in H.R. 8463

• Agencies could not approve a payment voucher until they finish Treasury’s required checks. They must confirm funds are available, payee details are correct, identifiers are valid, and the payee is eligible.
• Treasury must write the rules within 180 days. Those rules must explain what agencies must check before approval and when they must do it.
• Treasury’s Chief Disbursing Officer and agency payment officials could send back bad payment vouchers. They could do this when a voucher fails the pre-approval checks.
• Agencies must build fraud-risk warning signs into their reviews. These reviews look for programs at risk of improper payments, meaning payments made by mistake or fraud.
• Treasury’s Do Not Pay tool would become a formal system in law. Treasury’s Fiscal Service would run it and could use or add approved data for payment screening.

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What is H.R. 8463?

Federal agencies would have to check payments more carefully before sending money. Treasury’s Do Not Pay system would get clearer rules and wider use. First-time recipients of large awards would also face a one-time spending report.

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