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Aid Payments Changes: No Benefits for Rape Convicts, Funds for Victims.

New rules change the distribution of 2021 recovery rebates. Individuals convicted of rape will not receive these funds. Instead, the money will be redirected to the Crime Victims Fund to compensate victims of crime.
Key points
Individuals convicted of rape and confined in correctional facilities will not receive 2021 recovery rebates.
Funds that would have gone to these individuals will be redirected to the Crime Victims Fund.
Money from the Crime Victims Fund will be used to pay restitution to crime victims.
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Additional Information
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to ensure that the 2021 recovery rebates as provided for in the American Rescue Plan Act are not provided to prison inmates convicted of rape and that such sums shall be redirected to the Department of Justice to be paid out in the form of restitution to compensate victims of crime.
Print number: S 930
Sponsor: Sen. Cruz, Ted [R-TX]
Process start date: 2021-03-23