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Title 31, Money and FinanceRelease 119-110

§3356 Improving the Use of Data by Executive Agencies for Curbing Improper Payments

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

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

Make federal agencies share death records quickly so payments to people who have died can be stopped. The existing process for the Department of State and the Department of Defense stays in place, but the head of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) can change it if needed. Within 1 year after the date this law is enacted, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs and the Director of the Office of Personnel Management must set up a process to regularly send death information, including stopped-payments data, to any agencies OMB says need it. They may also find other federal death data sources and tell those data owners to share the data. Guidance already issued under the prior law stays in effect, and OMB may update it.

Full Legal Text

Title 31, §3356

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(a)Prompt Reporting of Death Information by the Department of State and the Department of Defense.—
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)
(2)may be modified as determined appropriate by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget.
(b)Prompt Reporting of Death Information by the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Office of Personnel Management.—
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)
(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)Guidance to Executive Agencies Regarding Data Access and Use for Improper Payments Purposes.—
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)
(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 31, Money and Finance

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110