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Mandate Legal Entity Identifiers for federal awards above $25M
Adopt ISO 17442 LEIs for federal award recipients, phased in over three years. Closes the gap UEIs and DUNS leave open.
Modernize the Do Not Pay framework with continuous data feeds
Move Treasury's Do Not Pay program from periodic batch matching to authenticated real-time feeds across high-risk benefit programs.
Authorize IG access to commercial fraud-risk databases
Provide explicit statutory authority for Inspectors General to access commercial identity-verification and fraud-risk data, with privacy guardrails.
Require improper-payment root-cause analysis for any program above $1B
Replace box-checking improper-payment reporting with mandatory root-cause analysis and a specific corrective plan reviewed by OMB.
Strengthen SSA Death Master File timeliness and access
Reduce the lag between death events and DMF availability for benefit-paying agencies, and expand limited-access provisions for fraud-prevention use.
Fund a federal AI sandbox for fraud-detection pilots
Establish a cross-agency sandbox so program owners can pilot AI-assisted detection with privacy guardrails before scaling.
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