The Labor Department plans to require states to provide confidential unemployment claims information to federal officials and is considering creating a national claims database for oversight and audits. The rulemaking notice ties the move to a March executive order that called for the Labor secretary to receive unfettered access to all unemployment data and related payment records to investigate fraud, detect vulnerabilities, and prevent future attacks. The initiative follows earlier pushes under the current administration to centralize state data, some of which has been used for immigration enforcement. The department frames the proposal as a measure to prevent waste, fraud, and abuse.
The Labor Department is planning to require states to hand over sensitive unemployment information in the name of fighting fraud. The plan, detailed in a notice of proposed rulemaking issued on Friday, would require states to hand over confidential unemployment claims information to federal officials. The department is also considering creating a national claims database for oversight and audits, it says in the notice.
It's the latest push for states to send more information to the federal government since Trump took office, some of which has been used for immigration enforcement. Several news outlets have also reported that the administration is combining data into a master database, although the government's federal chief information officer has said he doesn't know of any such effort. Labor is tying the move to a March executive order on data sharing that called for the Labor secretary to receive
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