Rep Horsford Speaks about Ensuring Unemployment Insurance Recipients are Treated Fair on House Floor

The Surprise Billing Our Workers Act unfairly targets hard-working constituents who may have unintentionally received overpaid unemployment insurance benefits due to errors by state authorities. I argue against allowing the government to pursue repayment of those funds for up to 10 years. I remind my colleagues of the Unemployment Insurance Technology Modernization Act I introduced in the previous Congress, which aims to prevent fraud and improve state unemployment programs and urge cooperation on both sides in finding real solutions and redirecting efforts towards corporate cartels involved in fraud while protecting the unemployment program as crucial support for those in need.