Bill Would Protect Federal Retirees From Fraud

Government Executive: A bipartisan Senate bill aims to better protect federal retirees from nefarious financial representatives seeking to steal their benefits.
 
The 2015 Representative Payee Fraud Prevention Act, which Sens. James Lankford, R-Okla., and Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D., to introduced Monday afternoon, would give U.S. attorneys the statutory authority to prosecute retiree representatives who misuse funds from the Federal Employees Retirement System and the Civil Service Retirement System.

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