Condemning actors seeking to defraud the United States Government, and expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that governmentwide fraud and improper payment prevention reforms will meaningfully improve the financial prosperity of the United States, and that Federal program eligibility should be verified before payment.

This resolution expresses the House of Representatives' condemnation of those who defraud the federal government and states the sense of the House that eligibility verification should occur before payments are issued. It cites GAO estimates that the federal government has made roughly $3 trillion in improper payments since 2003 and loses between $233 billion and $521 billion annually to fraud, and references ongoing congressional investigations into fraud in Minnesota social services, California hospice programs, and Medicaid personal care services. The resolution is non-binding — it does not change any law or appropriate any funds — and calls for legislative reforms to strengthen pre-payment fraud prevention.