Can expenses be restricted to charge once a year

Summary: Internet expenses are reimbursed to employees as they work from home, can expenses cloud restrict or validate such expenses and stop submission if it's in a specific period. I'm aware of the Duplicate expense functionality which only checks the same date, expense type, and amount match.

Content (required): Based on the above scenario we are looking for functionality where an employee is blocked before submission when submitting an expense for the same expense type within a specific period. I understand Audit can find this, but our requirement is system has to stop employee at the time of submission.

Version (include the version you are using, if applicable): 21D