---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 9034"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "9034"
heading: "Funding for fraud prevention, equitable access, and timely payment to eligible workers"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/9034"
units:
  - "Chapter 116 — Coronavirus Economic Stabilization (cares Act)"
  - "Subchapter II — Unemployment Insurance Provisions"
---

# §9034. Funding for fraud prevention, equitable access, and timely payment to eligible workers

- (a) **In general—** In addition to amounts otherwise available, there is appropriated to the [Secretary](/usc/15/9041.md?p=9) of Labor for fiscal year 2021, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $2,000,000,000, to remain available until expended, to detect and prevent fraud, promote equitable access, and ensure the timely payment of benefits with respect to unemployment compensation programs, including programs extended under subtitle A of title IX of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.
- (b) **Use of funds—** Amounts made available under [subsection (a)](#a) may be used—
  - (1) for Federal administrative costs related to the purposes described in [subsection (a)](#a);
  - (2) for systemwide infrastructure investment and development related to such purposes; and
  - (3) to make grants to [States](/usc/15/9041.md?p=10) or territories administering unemployment compensation programs described in [subsection (a)](#a) (including territories administering the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program under [section 9021 of this title](/usc/15/9021.md)) for such purposes, including the establishment of procedures or the building of infrastructure to verify or validate identity, implement Federal guidance regarding fraud detection and prevention, and accelerate claims processing or process claims backlogs due to the pandemic.
- (c) **Restrictions on grants to States and territories—** As a condition of receiving a grant under [subsection (b)(3)](#b-3), the [Secretary](/usc/15/9041.md?p=9) may require that a [State](/usc/15/9041.md?p=10) or territory receiving such a grant shall—
  - (1) use such program integrity tools as the [Secretary](/usc/15/9041.md?p=9) may specify; and
  - (2) as directed by the [Secretary](/usc/15/9041.md?p=9), conduct user accessibility testing on any new system developed by the [Secretary](/usc/15/9041.md?p=9) pursuant to [subsection (b)(2)](#b-2).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 116–136, div. A, title II, § 2118, as added Pub. L. 117–2, title IX, § 9032, Mar. 11, 2021, 135 Stat. 121.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Subtitle A of title IX of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, referred to in subsec. (a), is subtitle A (§§ 9011–9042) of title IX of Pub. L. 117–2, Mar. 11, 2021, 135 Stat. 118. For complete classification of subtitle A to the Code, see Tables.