Title 31Money and FinanceRelease 119-73

§3356 Improving the use of data by executive agencies for curbing improper payments

Title 31 › Subtitle SUBTITLE III— - FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT › Chapter CHAPTER 33— - DEPOSITING, KEEPING, AND PAYING MONEY › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER IV— - IMPROPER PAYMENTS › § 3356

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Keep the procedure created under section 7(a) of the Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Improvement Act of 2012 in effect after this law takes effect. The Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB Director) may change that procedure. Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this section, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs and the Director of the Office of Personnel Management must set up a process to quickly and regularly send death information, including stopped payments data when applicable, to executive agencies the OMB Director finds need it to reduce improper payments. They may also identify other federal death data sources and direct those data owners to share data. The guidance under section 7(b) of that 2012 Act also stays in effect and may be changed by the OMB Director.

Full Legal Text

Title 31, §3356

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(a)The procedure required to be established under section 7(a) of the Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Improvement Act of 2012, as in effect on the day before the date of enactment of this section—
(1)shall continue to be in effect on and after the date of enactment of this section; and
(2)may be modified as determined appropriate by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget.
(b)Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this section, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs and the Director of the Office of Personnel Management shall establish a procedure under which the Secretary and the Director—
(1)shall promptly and on a regular basis submit information relating to the deaths of individuals, including stopped payments data as applicable, to each executive agency for which the Director of the Office of Management and Budget determines receiving and using such information would be relevant and necessary; and
(2)to facilitate the centralized access of death data for the use of reducing improper payments, may identify additional Federal sources of death data and direct the data owner to provide that data to 1 or more executive agencies for that purpose.
(c)The guidance required to be issued under section 7(b) of the Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Improvement Act of 2012, as in effect on the day before the date of enactment of this section—
(1)shall continue to be in effect on and after the date of enactment of this section; and
(2)may be modified as determined appropriate by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget.

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The date of enactment of this section, referred to in text, is the date of enactment of Pub. L. 116–117, which was approved Mar. 2, 2020. section 7 of the Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Improvement Act of 2012, referred to in subsecs. (a) and (c), is section 7 of Pub. L. 112–248, which was formerly set out in a note under section 3321 of this title, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 116–117, § 3(a)(3), Mar. 2, 2020, 134 Stat. 133.

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31 U.S.C. § 3356

Title 31Money and Finance

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73