---
kind: "section"
citation: "31 U.S.C. § 3356"
title: "31"
title_heading: "Money and Finance"
number: "3356"
heading: "Improving the use of data by executive agencies for curbing improper payments"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/31/3356"
units:
  - "Subtitle III — Financial Management"
  - "Chapter 33 — Depositing, Keeping, and Paying Money"
  - "Subchapter IV — Improper Payments"
---

# §3356. Improving the use of data by executive agencies for curbing improper payments

- (a) **Prompt Reporting of Death Information by the Department of State and the Department of Defense.—** The procedure required to be established under section 7(a) of the [Improper Payments](/usc/31/3351.md?p=4) Elimination and Recovery Improvement Act of 2012, as in effect on the day before the date of enactment of this section—
  - (1) shall continue to be in effect on and after the date of enactment of this section; and
  - (2) may be modified as determined appropriate by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget.
- (b) **Prompt Reporting of Death Information by the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Office of Personnel Management.—** Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this section, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs and the Director of the Office of Personnel Management shall establish a procedure under which the Secretary and the Director—
  - (1) shall promptly and on a regular basis submit information relating to the deaths of individuals, including stopped [payments](/usc/31/3351.md?p=5) data as applicable, to each executive agency for which the Director of the Office of Management and Budget determines receiving and using such information would be relevant and necessary; and
  - (2) to facilitate the centralized access of death data for the use of reducing [improper payments](/usc/31/3351.md?p=4), may identify additional Federal sources of death data and direct the data owner to provide that data to 1 or more executive agencies for that purpose.
- (c) **Guidance to Executive Agencies Regarding Data Access and Use for Improper Payments Purposes.—** The guidance required to be issued under section 7(b) of the [Improper Payments](/usc/31/3351.md?p=4) Elimination and Recovery Improvement Act of 2012, as in effect on the day before the date of enactment of this section—
  - (1) shall continue to be in effect on and after the date of enactment of this section; and
  - (2) may be modified as determined appropriate by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 116–117, § 2(a), Mar. 2, 2020, 134 Stat. 130.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The date of enactment of this section, referred to in text, is the date of enactment of Pub. L. 116–117, which was approved Mar. 2, 2020.

Section 7 of the Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Improvement Act of 2012, referred to in subsecs. (a) and (c), is section 7 of Pub. L. 112–248, which was formerly set out in a note under section 3321 of this title, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 116–117, § 3(a)(3), Mar. 2, 2020, 134 Stat. 133.