Department of Agriculture

OIG completed a final action verification of all nine recommendations in our June 25, 2021, report on the Hurricane Disaster Assistance-Emergency Watershed Protection Program.

We determined that although RMA performs oversight, it does not have the information needed to evaluate whether AIPs and agents are offering all relevant insurance plans to producers which may leave some producers without adequate protection.

Pursuant to One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) conducted a review of OIG and Government Accountability Office (GAO) engagements related to USDA programs that received funding under the act. Through this review, we identified work that may provide USDA insight when...

OIG contracted an Independent Public Accounting firm to review the Rural Utilities Service’s process for evaluating and prioritizing the level of service provided for its broadband program, as well as how the current mapping software addresses previously identified programming errors.

OIG reviewed the Agricultural Marketing Service’s monitoring over grantees’ use of funds within the Farm and Food Workers Relief Grant Program.

This report presents the results of the System and Organization Controls 1 Type 2 examination conducted in accordance with relevant attestation standards established by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants for the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Office of the Chief...

This report presents the results of the System and Organization Controls 1 Type 2 examination conducted in accordance with relevant attestation standards established by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants for the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Finance...

OIG performed agreed-upon procedures to assess information reported to OPM by USDA’s NFC.