S.Amdt. 829

SA 829. Mr. WYDEN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 5, setting forth the
congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year
2021 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal
years 2022 through 2030; which was ordered to lie on the table; as
follows:

At the end of title III, add the following:

SEC. 3___. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO BENEFIT
TIMELINESS AND ACCURACY IN THE PANDEMIC
UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate
may revise the allocations of a committee or committees,
aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution,
and make adjustments to the pay-as-you-go ledger, for one or
more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between
the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to
benefit timeliness and accuracy in the Pandemic Unemployment
Assistance program, which may include preventing organized
fraud and identity theft in the Pandemic Unemployment
Assistance program, prioritizing benefit timeliness for
eligible Pandemic Unemployment Assistance

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claimants, and ensuring that eligible claimants do not face
unreasonable delays or improper denials of benefits due to
any new measures to prevent organized fraud and identity
theft by the amounts provided in such legislation for those
purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase
the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal
years 2021 through 2025 or the period of the total of fiscal
years 2021 through 2030.

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