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DUA Immigration Verification

SECTION 184.   Consistent with federal and state law and to prevent fraud and misuse of unemployment benefits, the division of unemployment assistance shall:

(1) maintain interagency agreements with the United States Social Security Administration and the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service within the Department of Homeland Security to utilize a primary verification system to determine citizenship or work authorization at the time of new claim filings through the SAVE system;

(2) require noncitizen claimants to provide their alien registration number; provided, however, that the division of unemployment assistance shall verify claimant information and alien registration number with the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service within the Department of Homeland Security;

(3) require noncitizen claimants who cannot provide an alien registration number during the new claim process to send copies of any official documents they have that authorize them to work in the United States to the division of unemployment assistance;

(4) institute a secondary verification process for claims for which a non-citizen does not have an alien registration number or if primary verification does not establish satisfactory status, using division staff to review the documents and transmit pertinent information from the documents for verification with the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service within the Department of Homeland Security;

(5) in cases where secondary verification is required, issue no payment after the first payment until the claim has been verified by the secondary verification process;

(6) flag expiration dates of work authorizations or in the unemployment insurance system if such dates exist; and

(7) report annually to the senate and house committees on ways and means and the executive office for administration and finance the amount of money recovered by the division of unemployment assistance from those who received benefits fraudulently as well as the numbers of recipients who were issued disqualifications.