2021 Kentucky Revised Statutes Chapter 341 - Unemployment compensation 341.414 Steps office shall take for all claims made after July 1, 2023, to ensure integrity of program, to verify eligibility, to prevent fraud and overpayment of claims -- Records -- Annual report to Legislative Research Commission.
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341.414 Steps office shall take for all claims made after July 1, 2023, to
ensure integrity of program, to verify eligibility, to prevent fraud and
overpayment of claims -- Records -- Annual report to Legislative
Research Commission.
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To ensure the integrity of the unemployment insurance program, to verify
eligibility, to prevent fraudulent filing, and to prevent overpayment of claims, for
all claims made after July 1, 2023, the office shall:
(a) Use state or commercially available databases to check new hire records
against the state's unemployment insurance rolls on a weekly basis;
(b) Check state data, federal data, or a commercially available database on a
weekly basis;
(c) Check new hire records against the National Directory of New Hires on a
weekly basis;
(d) Check the unemployment insurance rolls against the Kentucky
Department of Corrections list of incarcerated individuals on a weekly
basis;
(e) Enter into a cooperative agreement with the United States Department of
Labor's Office of Inspector General to proactively detect and investigate
cases of unemployment fraud;
(f) Review the individual's case and make a final determination of his or her
eligibility when the office receives information that an individual who is
participating in the unemployment compensation insurance program has
had a change in circumstances that may affect his or her eligibility;
(g) Provide employers with electronic notice of new unemployment claims,
access to information about pending unemployment insurance claims,
and status of appealed claims via the Kentucky One Stop Business
Portal;
(h) Promulgate, adopt, and implement internal administrative regulations and
policies to recover improper overpayments of unemployment benefits;
(i) Require at least two-factor authentication from every benefit applicant
prior to payment of any benefit; and
(j) Maintain records of any and all applications for waiver of overpayment.
The office shall provide the Office of the Attorney General with all records it
requests for the purposes of investigating and prosecuting fraudulent
unemployment insurance activity.
The office shall complete an annual report for the Legislative Research
Commission which details efforts to recover improper benefit payments, causes
of improper unemployment benefit payments, measures implemented to avoid
improper benefit payments, summarizes all cases where repayment was not
attempted due to a statutory exception, and analyzes any cost savings to the
Commonwealth. The office shall provide this report to the Legislative Research
Commission annually, no later than October 1 of each year.
Effective:March 12, 2021
History: Created 2021 Ky. Acts ch. 16, sec. 3, effective March 12, 2021.
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