Federal Reports

The Postal Service uses the Time and Attendance Collection System (TACS) to capture the number of workhours employees spend working in various Postal Service operations. Employees record the times and types of operation they work by swiping their employee identification card on a badge reader at the facility. Each swipe updates their timecard record in TACS and is referred to as a clock ring. Our objective was to assess whether timecard adjustments were made in accordance with Postal Service policy and to assess enhancements to the timecard system.

To determine whether the Social Security Administration (SSA) was incorrectly issuing Old-Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance (OASDI benefits to individuals who were recorded as deceased on the Agency’s Supplemental Security Record (SSR).

Prior OIG audits found that New York did not effectively monitor its Medicaid personal care services program and, as a result, made more than $375 million in Federal Medicaid payments for services that did not comply with Federal and State requirements. This audit was conducted to determine whether New York made improvements to its monitoring of the program and whether any of those improvements were effective.Our objective was to determine whether New York claimed Medicaid reimbursement for personal care services that complied with Federal and State requirements.