During the Biden administration, the department was trying to take a more active role in the state-run system, doling out grants for projects aimed at improving equitable and timely access to benefits, preventing fraudsters from siphoning off government money and working with multi-disciplinary teams to modernize the program’s technology.
Now, Labor is undergoing a review of ARPA funding, it said, “to ensure that the use of such funds is done in the most efficient and effective manner to achieve the objectives of ARPA, and in a manner that aligns with agency and administration priorities.”
