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S. 5037 116th Congress Senate

Relief for Working Families Act of 2020

Official title: A bill to amend subtitle A of title II of division A of the CARES Act to provide a hardship waiver for certain overpayments of Pandemic Unemployment Assistance.

Introduced: December 16, 2020 Introduced by: Tammy Duckworth Democratic · Illinois See on congress.gov
Labor and Employment Cardiovascular and respiratory healthEmergency medical services and trauma careInfectious and parasitic diseasesState and local government operationsUnemployment
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Dec 16, 2020
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 Latest action December 16, 2020

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Relief for Working Families Act of 2020

This bill authorizes a state to require a recipient of Pandemic Unemployment Assistance to repay any overpayment of such assistance to the state agency unless the overpayment of such assistance was without fault on the part of any such individual, and such repayment would be contrary to equity and good conscience.

 Related & companion bills 8
  • HR 133 Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021
  • HR 925 The Heroes Act
  • HR 7762 Back on Your Feet Act of 2020
  • HR 8406 Making emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2021, and for other purposes.
  • S 4771 Continued Assistance to Unemployed Workers Act of 2020
  • S 4800 The Heroes Act
  • S 4935 American Worker Holiday Relief Act of 2020
  • HR 8812 Relief for Working Families Act of 2020
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Durbin, Richard J.
Illinois · Dec 16, 2020
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 5037: Relief for Working Families Act of 2020. 116th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-5037/
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