Federal Reports

The Farm Credit Administration (FCA) OIG reviewed the system of quality control for the audit organization of the EAC OIG in effect for the year ended March 31, 2024. This report discusses their findings.

The U.S. Postal Service manages over 21 million Post Office (PO) Boxes throughout the country, collecting $1.5 billion in revenue in fiscal year (FY) 2023. As part of its Delivering for America plan, the Postal Service is focused on improving PO Box revenue, mainly through price increases. Vacancy rates continue to grow, however, and changes in customer preferences and operations pose unique challenges going forward.

We performed this audit to determine whether Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA) has sufficient processes for overseeing vocational rehabilitation (VR) program grantees’ effective use of funds in compliance with applicable requirements. We found that RSA generally had sufficient processes for overseeing State VR agencies’ effective use of funds. These processes included communicating clear, accurate, and timely guidance and technical assistance to State VR agencies; performing annual reviews for all State VR agencies; and conducting periodic onsite and offsite monitoring for selected State VR agencies. However, we found that RSA could strengthen its oversight in key areas by developing documented procedures for its annual reviews, improving its risk assessment processes by incorporating a risk factor that accounts for a State VR agency’s technical assistance needs, and establishing a reasonable period during which all State VR agencies must be subject to onsite or offsite monitoring at least once.

The U.S. Postal Service recently begun realigning its network by implementing Regional Processing and Distribution Centers (RPDC) to consolidate mail processing operations, reduce costs, and grow package business. To help support this strategy, the Postal Service deployed the Matrix Regional Sorter (MaRS). The MaRS is designed to increase package processing capacity and efficiency while using less floor space, a critical factor to the success of implementing the Postal Service’s network transformation and increasing their share in the growing package market.