Federal Reports

This report presents the results of our verification inspection of the U.S. Small Business Administration’s (SBA) corrective actions for the five recommendations from the Office of Inspector General (OIG) evaluation report SBA’s Handling of Identity Theft in the COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loan Program (Report 21-15).We initiated this verification inspection to determine whether the closed recommendations were fully implemented or if further corrective actions were needed. Accordingly, our objective was to determine the effectiveness of the corrective actions SBA implemented to 1) resolve credit-related issues for Coronavirus Disease 2019 Economic Injury Disaster Loan identity theft victims, 2) charge-off fraudulent loans and remove Uniform Commercial Code filing fees for loans associated with identity theft, and 3) review over 150,000 returned billing statements and resolve any involving identity theft.We determined OIG Report 21-15 recommendations 1, 2, 3, and 4 to be fully implemented; however, SBA management has not fully implemented recommendation 5. We will track management’s execution by reopening the recommendation and will work with SBA to establish a target date for enacting corrective actions through the audit follow-up process.

This Office of Inspector General (OIG) Comprehensive Healthcare Inspection Program report describes the results of a focused evaluation of the care provided at the W.G. (Bill) Hefner VA Medical Center in Salisbury, North Carolina.This evaluation focused on five key operational areas:• Leadership and organizational risks• Quality, safety, and value• Medical staff privileging• Environment of care• Mental health (suicide prevention initiatives)The OIG issued four recommendations for improvement in the mental health area of review:• Comprehensive Suicide Risk Evaluationo Completion following positive suicide screeno Suicide prevention team notified of suicidal or self-directed violent behaviors in previous 12 months• Full-time suicide prevention coordinator appointed for community-based outpatient clinics that serve 10,000 veterans annually• Suicide-related events reported monthly to mental health leaders and quality management staff

Like other federal agencies, NASA collects personally identifiable information, or PII. The Agency’s high-profile mission and broad connectivity with the public make it susceptible to increased privacy risks. While it has a comprehensive privacy program, NASA needs to take additional steps to better protect individuals’ personal information that it collects, uses, and maintains.