Open Recommendations
Recommendation Number | Significant Recommendation | Recommended Questioned Costs | Recommended Funds for Better Use | Additional Details | |
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2 | Yes | $0 | $0 | ||
That the Chief Human Capital Officer ensure approximately $1,550 in salary overpayments due to incorrect locality rates are resolved by issuing Administrative Billings and Collections bills and/or request waiver approvals from the Chief Financial Officer. | |||||
3 | Yes | $0 | $0 | ||
That Chief Human Capital Officer issue retroactive locality payments to the three underpaid individuals for approximately $4,383. | |||||
4 | Yes | $0 | $0 | ||
That Chief Human Capital Officer and Office of Chief Financial Officer establish a process to review and reconcile retroactive adjustments to ensure that the correct amounts are reflected in the payroll transactions. | |||||
5 | Yes | $0 | $0 | ||
That the Chief Human Capital Officer ensures that human resource management staff are trained to research errors that need retroactive adjustments. | |||||
6 | Yes | $0 | $0 | ||
That the Chief Human Capital Officer ensures that the standard operating procedures for Position Management System Online are updated to include the review of duty station codes when employees are promoted. | |||||
9 | Yes | $0 | $0 | ||
That the Senior Policy Committee and Office of Chief Financial Officer update the waiver process to allow for increased transparency in the approval process timeline, require that waiver justifications have accurate waiver amounts, and document how the bill was ultimately resolved. | |||||
10 | Yes | $0 | $0 | ||
That Office of Chief Financial Officer develop a report to track payroll bills, collections, and waivers to properly account for improper payments for payroll transactions. | |||||
12 | Yes | $0 | $0 | ||
That the Chief Human Capital Officer ensure employees receive appropriate retroactive compensation for delayed within grade increases totaling approximately $13,011. | |||||
13 | Yes | $0 | $0 | ||
That the Chief Human Capital Officer ensure that the employee is billed, or a Chief Financial Officer approved waiver is processed for the within grade salary overpayments totaling approximately $3,880. | |||||
15 | Yes | $0 | $0 | ||
That the Chief Human Capital Officer establish and implement procedures to detect and prevent clerical errors from on-boarding, processing re-assignments, and multiple personnel actions that could affect other areas such as within grade increases | |||||
17 | Yes | $0 | $0 | ||
That Office of Chief Financial Officer develop reports using data received from payroll files to assist with resolving discrepancies such as employee’s names, social security numbers, pay period covered dates, and individual transaction amounts. | |||||
18 | Yes | $0 | $0 | ||
That Office of Chief Financial Officer ensure journal vouchers are timely processed to be included in the monthly reconciliation process. | |||||
19 | Yes | $0 | $0 | ||
That Office of Chief Financial Officer establish and implement a process to review, reconcile, and resolve discrepancies identified during the three-way reconciliation process between National Finance Center reports, Treasury, and the general ledger. | |||||
20 | Yes | $0 | $0 | ||
That Office of Chief Financial Officer document the monitoring process in a standard operating procedure that records the process and assigns accountability for reconciling, recording and correcting errors during the monthly reconciliation | |||||
21 | Yes | $0 | $0 | ||
That Office of Chief Financial Officer and Chief Human Capital Officer develop and implement a process to track all unresolved errors, investigate, and record corrective actions. | |||||
22 | Yes | $0 | $0 | ||
That Chief Human Capital Officer and Office of Chief Financial Officer reconcile charges totaling approximately $135,612 with National Finance Center to determine if the two payments ($97,780 and $37,832) were allowable and request a correction if they are unallowable. | |||||
23 | Yes | $0 | $0 | ||
That the Office of Chief Financial Officer develop and implement a process to reconcile variances in employees’ payroll to detect unusual transactions | |||||
24 | Yes | $0 | $0 | ||
That Chief Human Capital Officer and Office of Chief Financial Officer bill, request CFO approval to waive, or collect the unallowable payments hazard pay totaling $710 and health benefits paid by the agency for $569 | |||||
26 | Yes | $0 | $0 | ||
That the Chief Human Capital Officer ensure the incorrect retirement categories are changed and retroactively adjusted for 35 employees. | |||||
27 | Yes | $0 | $0 | ||
That the Chief Human Capital Officer ensure approximately $48,501 in salary overpayments for retirement are resolved by issuing Administrative Billing and Collection bills and/or requesting waiver approvals from the Chief Financial Officer. | |||||
28 | Yes | $0 | $0 | ||
That the Chief Human Capital Officer ensure employees that were over charged approximately $153,738 in retirement deductions receive refunds. | |||||
29 | Yes | $0 | $0 | ||
That the Chief Human Capital Officer review the accuracy of the refunds already issued to employees and make necessary corrections. | |||||
30 | Yes | $0 | $0 | ||
That the Chief Human Capital Officer and Office of Chief Financial Officer ensure agency contribution rates were accurately adjusted to reflect retroactive corrections for approximately $79,473 in underpayments and $33,217 in overpayments. |