# Alert Memorandum: The Pandemic Unemployment Assistance Program Needs Proactive Measures to Detect and Prevent Improper Payments and Fraud
> **Other** by Department of Labor OIG · 2020-05-26
> *About: Department of Labor*
## Report
- **Title:** Alert Memorandum: The Pandemic Unemployment Assistance Program Needs Proactive Measures to Detect and Prevent Improper Payments and Fraud
- **Submitting OIG:** Department of Labor OIG
- **Component agency:** Department of Labor
- **Type:** Other
- **Publication date:** 2020-05-26

## Recommendations

- **Rec 1** (Closed): We recommend ETA consider tools already available under the CARES Act such as those cited in § 2102(a)(3)(A)(i)(I)(kk) or § 2104(f)7 and change its guidance; or request legislative action to curtail improper or fraudulent PUA payments.
## Source
- [oversight.gov report page](https://www.oversight.gov/reports/other/alert-memorandum-pandemic-unemployment-assistance-program-needs-proactive-measures)
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