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Inspector General Open Recommendations

09/29/2021 - Department of Veterans Affairs Comprehensive Healthcare Inspection of the VA Connecticut Healthcare System in West Haven [Report Details] Review - Open Recommendations

09/29/2021 - Architect of the Capitol Audit of the Architect of the Capitol’s Unliquidated Obligations [Report Details] Audit - Open Recommendations

09/29/2021 - Department of Labor Unemployment Insurance Overpayments Related to Work Search Underscore the Need for More Consistent State Requirements [Report Details] Audit - Open Recommendations

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We recommend the following to the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Employment and Training: Examine the effectiveness of Benefit Accuracy Measurement’s contact verification process to ensure it reflects the current methods claimants use to seek work.
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We recommend the following to the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Employment and Training: Provide guidance to states notifying them that formal and informal warnings are not permissible under Federal work search law.
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We recommend the following to the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Employment and Training: Include in the UI improper payment estimate: (1) overpayments related to work search formal and informal warnings; and (2) payments to claimants who provide no or insufficient documentation to support eligibility with respect to work search, consistent with the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act and OMB guidance that defines improper payments.

09/29/2021 - Department of Labor OSHA's Diminished Enforcement Left More Workers at Risk for Exposure to Silica Report [Report Details] Audit - Open Recommendations

09/29/2021 - National Science Foundation Performance Audit of Incurred Costs – University of California, San Francisco [Report Details] Audit - Open Recommendations

1.1
Resolve the $55,739 in questioned, unallocable publication and other direct costs for which UCSF has not agreed to reimburse NSF and direct UCSF to repay or otherwise remove the sustained questioned costs from its NSF awards.
1.2
Direct UCSF to provide documentation supporting that it has repaid or otherwise credited the $20,253 in questioned, unallocable publication and other direct costs for which UCSF has agreed to reimburse NSF.
1.3
Direct UCSF to strengthen its administrative and management controls and processes for supporting the allocation of expenses to sponsored projects. Updated processes could include: Requiring Principal Investigators or other designated staff to both document and justify the allocation methodologies used when charging expenses to sponsored projects; Implementing a standard documentation and retention process to support the allocation applied to costs which benefit multiple awards; and Providing training on how to assess and document the methodology used to allocate publication costs across each sponsored award acknowledged in the publication.
2.1
Resolve the $21,324 in questioned participant support and travel costs for which UCSF has not agreed to reimburse NSF and direct UCSF to repay or otherwise remove the sustained questioned costs from its NSF awards.
2.2
Direct UCSF to provide documentation supporting that it has repaid or otherwise credited the $15,375 of questioned participant support, travel and salary costs for which it has agreed to reimburse NSF.
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Direct UCSF to establish clear guidance regarding the allowable uses of participant support cost funding. This guidance should address how to segregate and account for costs that cannot be covered with participant support cost funding, such as costs incurred for UCSF employees, entertainment costs, and expenses associated with unused participant lodging.
2.4
Direct UCSF to strengthen its administrative and management processes to ensure credits received from vendors are appropriately reimbursed to the original funding source(s) charged.
2.5
Direct UCSF to strengthen its administrative and management processes and procedures surrounding the approval of travel expense reports. Updated procedures could include: Conducting annual training that addresses how to ensure per diem expenses are appropriately reimbursed; Establishing controls within its travel reporting system to ensure costs associated with travel occurring after an award expires are not charged to the award; Requiring travelers to document the business purpose of each day of a planned trip before purchasing airfare, in order to enable UCSF to evaluate whether it must perform a travel comparison to support that airfare costs did not increase as a result of personal travel; and Implementing additional reviews for all airfare purchases that require the reviewer to verify that airfare complies with the Fly America Act and relates to economy class airfare prior to the expenses being charged to NSF awards.

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