As ordered reported by the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability on April 10, 2024
By Fiscal Year, Millions of Dollars
2024
2024-2029
2024-2034
Direct Spending (Outlays)
0
0
0
Revenues
0
0
0
Increase or Decrease (-) in the Deficit
0
0
0
Spending Subject to Appropriation (Outlays)
0
-945
-3,793
Increases net direct spending in any of the four consecutive 10-year periods beginning in 2035?
No
Statutory pay-as-you-go procedures apply?
No
Mandate Effects
Increases on-budget deficits in any of the four consecutive 10-year periods beginning in 2035?
No
Contains intergovernmental mandate?
No
Contains private-sector mandate?
No
The bill would
Require agencies to verify the eligibility of dependents enrolled in the Federal Employees Health Benefits program when the employee or annuitant starts or changes a dependent’s enrollment
Require the Office of Personnel Management to audit dependents’ enrollment in the program
Expand fraud risk assessments of the program to include information on ineligible enrollees
Deny enrollment to ineligible dependents or disenroll them from the program
Estimated budgetary effects would mainly stem from
Conducting an enrollment audit of the program
Disenrolling ineligible dependents
Areas of significant uncertainty include
Predicting the number and timing of dependents who would be found ineligible
Projecting the reductions in spending that would be generated by disenrollment of ineligible dependents
