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Do Not Pay

Trusted Data to Safeguard Taxpayer Dollars

Do Not Pay has been helping agencies to address fraud and improper payments with data-driven strategies for over a decade. In Fiscal Year 2025 alone, Treasury and Do Not Pay helped agencies to prevent, detect, and recover $11.7 billion in potential fraud and improper payments. Join us as we work to eliminate fraud and improper payments in government programs.

Do Not Pay provides federal agencies and federally funded state-administered programs access to data and services to verify recipient identity and eligibility before making an award or issuing a payment.

No Cost Resource

All Do Not Pay services are available at no cost to federal agencies and state governments administering federal programs and spending federal dollars.

Required by Federal Law

Our goal is to ensure that all awards and payments are screened against Do Not Pay. In fact, that’s the law!

Dedicated Support

We have a dedicated team of experts to help your agency or state establish legal agreements, form technical connections, and understand how to interpret the results from our data and services.

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Our Products

We offer a variety of products – from direct system integration to manual search capability – that provide identity and eligibility verification to support federal programs.

Our Resources

To help you make the most of Do Not Pay, we offer user guides, how-to videos, and in-depth technical resources.

Our Privacy Protections

Protecting Americans’ privacy is embedded in everything we do, from the meticulous process we follow to add new data sources to the rigorous cybersecurity protections we have in place.

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