The U.S. Department of Labor has notified all states and territories of potential administrative fund withdrawals contingent upon the mitigation of fraud and fiscal mismanagement within unemployment insurance systems.

美國勞工部已通知所有州與領地，若失業保險系統內之欺詐與財政管理不善問題未能緩解，可能會撤回行政資金。

The current administrative posture, articulated by Acting Secretary Keith Sonderling, emphasizes the utilization of all available regulatory levers to protect federal tax revenues. This initiative is situated within a broader executive strategy, overseen by Vice President JD Vance, to scrutinize the allocation of federal funds across various social programs. Parallel efforts by the Departments of Health and Human Services and Agriculture indicate a systemic trend toward the conditional disbursement of administrative funding based on compliance with federal auditing and data-reporting requirements.

由代理部長 Keith Sonderling 表明的目前行政立場，強調利用所有可用監管手段以保護聯邦稅收。此舉屬於由副總統 JD Vance 監督的更廣泛行政策略，旨在審查聯邦資金在各項社會計畫中的分配情況。衛生與公共服務部及農業部的平行行動亦顯示，目前存在一種系統性趨勢，即行政資金的撥付將基於是否符合聯邦審計與數據報告要求而決定。

Institutional friction is evident in the Department's focus on California, New York, and Illinois. The Department of Labor cited California's $20 billion pandemic-era debt, New York's daily losses from improper payments and fraud, and Illinois' 14% improper payment rate. However, a distinction between fraudulent activity and improper payments—the latter often attributed to systemic technological obsolescence—remains underdeveloped in the Department's public assertions. Comparative data suggests that improper payment rates in certain Republican-led jurisdictions, such as Florida (36.43%), exceed those of California (16.85%).

勞工部將重點放在加州、紐約州與伊利諾州，顯示出制度性的摩擦。勞工部引用了加州在疫情期間 200 億美元的債務、紐約州因錯誤支付與欺詐導致的每日損失，以及伊利諾州 14% 的錯誤支付率。然而，在勞工部的公開聲明中，對於「欺詐行為」與「錯誤支付」——後者通常歸因於系統技術陳舊——之間的區分仍不夠明確。對比數據顯示，某些由共和黨領導的轄區（如佛羅里達州，達 36.43%）的錯誤支付率高於加州（16.85%）。

External analysis from the National Academy of Social Insurance suggests that the current approach may be suboptimal, positing that a collaborative, intergovernmental framework would be more efficacious than the current punitive model. Furthermore, the Government Accountability Office estimated pandemic-era fraud between $100 billion and $135 billion, though the Department of Labor has contested the accuracy of these figures. The recent mandate for the return of unspent American Rescue Plan Act funds has been characterized by experts as a potential impediment to the modernization of the very systems required to combat fraud.

國家社會保險學院的外部分析指出，目前的做法可能不夠理想，認為協作的跨政府框架會比目前的懲罰模式更有效。此外，政府問責局估計疫情期間的欺詐金額在 1,000 億至 1,350 億美元之間，儘管勞工部對這些數字的準確性提出異議。專家認為，近期要求退還未使用的《美國救援計畫法案》資金的指令，可能會阻礙用於對抗欺詐的系統進行現代化升級。

The Department of Labor continues to signal the imposition of financial sanctions against states failing to meet its fraud-reduction standards, while state executives and policy experts contest the objectivity and methodology of these measures.

勞工部繼續暗示將對未能達到其欺詐削減標準的州政府實施財務制裁，而州政府主管與政策專家則對這些措施的客觀性與方法提出異議。