---
kind: "section"
citation: "2 U.S.C. § 1872"
title: "2"
title_heading: "The Congress"
number: "1872"
heading: "Use of expired funds for unemployment compensation payments"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/2/1872"
units:
  - "Chapter 28 — Architect of the Capitol"
  - "Subchapter IV — Appropriations and Expenditures"
---

# §1872. Use of expired funds for unemployment compensation payments

- (a) Available balances of expired Architect of the Capitol appropriations shall be available to the Architect of the Capitol for reimbursing the Federal [Employees](/usc/2/4558.md?p=2) Compensation Account (as established by [section 1109 of title 42](/usc/42/1109.md)) for any amounts paid with respect to unemployment compensation payments for former [employees](/usc/2/4558.md?p=2) of the Architect of the Capitol, notwithstanding any other provision of law, without regard to the fiscal year for which the obligation to make such payments is incurred.
- (b) This section shall apply with respect to fiscal year 2017 and each succeeding fiscal year.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 115–31, div. I, title I, § 1204, May 5, 2017, 131 Stat. 581.)