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The bill strengthens oversight and aims to reduce improper federal payments by requiring standardized training and offering free technical support to state/local/Tribal administrators, but it increases administrative costs and staff workload and raises privacy/data‑sharing concerns for partners.
Federal oversight staff will receive standardized training that improves detection and prevention of fraud and improper payments, likely reducing wasteful federal spending.
State, local, and Tribal administrators can access the Program at no cost and receive technical assistance, improving their ability to prevent improper payments in federally funded programs.
Mandatory certification and biennial retraining will create accountable records of oversight training and support more consistent internal controls across agencies.
Implementing and administering the training program will impose additional administrative costs on Treasury, OMB, OPM, and agencies that could require budget and resource commitments.
Mandatory training and biennial recertification will require time from agency oversight staff, potentially diverting time from other duties or increasing workload pressures.
Expanded data sharing and use of Treasury validation systems (like Do Not Pay) could raise privacy and administrative burden concerns for state and local partners integrating those systems.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Creates a government-wide antifraud and improper-payment training program and requires specified oversight employees to complete it and biennial refreshers.
Creates a government-wide antifraud and improper payment prevention training program administered by Treasury and OMB in consultation with OPM. Agencies must ensure specified oversight employees complete the training within 180 days of appointment (or 180 days after the law for current employees) and at least every two years thereafter. The program will teach risk identification, use of federal tools (Do Not Pay, Treasury payment-validation systems), applicable guidance (GAO framework, OMB A-123, Treasury Anti-Fraud Playbook, NIST identity standards), reporting, and internal controls. Treasury may offer the training free to state, local, and Tribal program administrators, and Treasury/OMB/OPM must report on implementation and effectiveness annually after an initial two-year report.
Official title: To amend title 5, United States Code, to establish an antifraud and improper payment training program for Federal program administrators, to provide for the availability of such training to State and local entities administering Federally funded programs, and for other purposes.
Introduced April 22, 2026 by Glenn Grothman · Last progress June 9, 2026