Establishing the Task Force to Eliminate Fraud Executive order establishing a White House task force to coordinate and accelerate a national strategy to prevent fraud, waste, and abuse in Federal benefit programs. Submitter's Note: This StratML rendition has been inferred from the source in dialog with ChatGPT. I has been lightly edited in the form at https://stratml.us/forms/Claude/Part1.html Executive Office of the President of the United States EOP b514aa4a-54ef-4c2c-b1be-0bdda78203ca The executive order establishes within the Executive Office of the President a Task Force to Eliminate Fraud to coordinate Federal anti-fraud efforts across benefit programs. Task Force to Eliminate Fraud White House task force established by the executive order. Department of the Treasury Department of Justice Department of Agriculture Department of Labor Department of Health and Human Services Department of Housing and Urban Development Department of Education Department of Veterans Affairs Department of Homeland Security Small Business Administration Office of Management and Budget Homeland Security Council Coordination partner on matters related to law enforcement, public safety, national security, transnational crime, and organized criminal activity. Eligible Americans Lawfully eligible beneficiaries whose interests the order states are to be protected. American taxpayers Taxpayers whose funds the order seeks to protect from fraud, waste, and abuse. Federal benefits programs administered with integrity for eligible Americans. c5c1a1f9-6884-4202-863c-ae4c6d4fb97a To prevent fraud, waste, and abuse in Federal benefit programs through coordinated oversight, verification, enforcement, and interagency action. c9c930e2-567e-4d41-97b8-ecc7a708a3b7 Integrity Protect taxpayer-funded benefits from fraud, waste, abuse, and improper payments. Eligibility Ensure benefits are provided only to lawfully eligible recipients and authorized providers. Accountability Hold agencies, jurisdictions, providers, and facilitators responsible for implementing and complying with anti-fraud controls. Coordination Advance data sharing and joint action among Federal, State, local, tribal, and territorial entities. Stewardship Safeguard public resources and preserve benefits for those in need. Program Integrity Strengthen the integrity of Federal benefit programs by establishing coordinated national leadership to eliminate fraud, waste, and abuse. 53578a29-bbe7-448e-9414-ba125dec8ae5 Task Force to Eliminate Fraud Central coordinating body established within the Executive Office of the President. Section 1 states the policy rationale for stronger eligibility validation, fraud controls, enforcement of eligibility rules, and protection of benefits for eligible Americans. Task Force Establish within the Executive Office of the President a Task Force to Eliminate Fraud chaired by the Vice President, with the Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission as Vice Chairman, an Executive Director designated by the Chairman, and the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security serving as Senior Advisor. f7ea8bcb-9aac-498d-85a8-a122b63ebc98 1 Vice President of the United States Chairman of the Task Force. Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission Vice Chairman of the Task Force. Assistant to the President for Homeland Security Senior Advisor to the Task Force. Section 2 establishes the Task Force, its leadership structure, participating departments and agencies, meeting authority, and coordination with the Homeland Security Council. Strategy Coordinate and accelerate a comprehensive national strategy to stop fraud, waste, and abuse within Federal benefit programs and advise the President while coordinating the work of appropriate member agencies. b3a22798-fced-42de-b5a1-643249291793 2 Member agencies of the Task Force Agencies responsible for coordinated anti-fraud action across Federal benefit programs. Section 3(a) directs the Task Force to improve eligibility verification, develop pre-obligation and pre-disbursement controls, evaluate fraud indicators and large-scale schemes, facilitate information sharing, disrupt fraud networks and facilitators, investigate fraud mechanisms including official facilitation, prevent remittance transfers involving fraud proceeds where lawful, audit and monitor compliance prospectively, and analyze provider or retailer identifying information to support revalidation or reauthorization policies. Information Require each agency administering Federal benefit programs to provide the Task Force with information relevant to advising the President and coordinating efforts to uncover benefits fraud and increase fraud-detection capability. cef726d8-09f5-4935-96b9-b487a681b4bb 3 Agencies administering Federal benefit programs Sources of program information needed by the Task Force. Section 3(b) requires provision of relevant program information to the Task Force, consistent with applicable law. Supervision Subject the Task Force to the President's direct supervision and control and require frequent updates to ensure the Task Force's actions remain consistent with Presidential direction. 92561f54-e884-4d9f-85cc-5bbb2c25fa8b 4 President of the United States Receives updates and directly supervises and controls the Task Force. Section 3(c) provides for direct Presidential supervision and frequent updates. Controls Identify transactions and processes most susceptible to fraud and adopt minimum anti-fraud requirements for such transactions and processes, including jurisdictional implementation expectations and potential withholding recommendations for inadequate anti-fraud controls. 8385cfd1-6d93-4412-ad62-af0967e49853 5 Agencies administering Federal benefit programs represented on the Task Force Responsible for identifying vulnerable transactions and proposing preventive measures. State, local, territorial, and tribal jurisdictions Partners that may administer transactions or processes involving Federal funding and may be required to demonstrate anti-fraud implementation. Section 4(a) requires submission within 30 days of descriptions of fraud-susceptible transactions and suggested measures. Section 4(b) requires coordination within 60 days to adopt minimum anti-fraud requirements, which may include screening, proof of identity, eligibility verification, pre-payment integrity controls, documentation requirements, information and data sharing, integrity checks, cross-program risk indicators, coordinated recovery and enforcement pathways, appropriate use of providers and intermediaries, and audit and remedial measures including suspension, termination, repayment, exclusion, and debarment. Implementation Require each member of the Task Force to submit a measurable implementation plan concerning the measures identified or developed under the order. 09776fae-9242-4c66-bc2b-ab5ef372e13f 6 Members of the Task Force Each member is required to submit a measurable implementation plan. Section 4(c) requires submission of measurable implementation plans within 90 days of the date of the order. Support Provide administrative and technical support, and information required by the Task Force, upon request of the Chairman or Vice Chairman. 2675813f-48ec-467d-83fb-e5f5938b09f7 7 Heads of other agencies Requested providers of administrative support, technical support, and information. Section 5 addresses administration and support for the Task Force. Pursuit Promote the meritorious pursuit and prompt review of private civil actions under 31 U.S.C. 3730 concerning fraud within Federal benefit programs. 1be5cf06-f571-4d37-b458-72470f76ee4d 8 Attorney General Directed to promote and ensure prompt review of qualifying civil fraud actions. Private persons pursuing civil actions Potential relators in civil fraud actions under the False Claims Act provisions cited in the order. Section 6 directs the Attorney General to promote meritorious pursuit of such actions and to ensure prompt review to the maximum extent practicable. Implementation Conditions Implement the order consistent with applicable law, available appropriations, existing legal authorities of executive departments and agencies, and the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget. 7848c983-a667-443a-8b73-a7d32f67b4d9 9 Executive departments and agencies Entities whose existing legal authorities remain unimpaired by the order. Office of Management and Budget Its budgetary, administrative, and legislative proposal functions remain unaffected. Section 7 contains general provisions concerning legal effect, appropriations, non-creation of enforceable rights or benefits, and publication costs to be borne by the Department of the Treasury. 2026-03-16 2026-03-17 https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/03/establishing-the-task-force-to-eliminate-fraud/ Owen Ambur Owen.Ambur@verizon.net