Federal Reports

The Office of Inspector General (OIG) is issuing this evaluation report to assess the U.S. Small Business Administration’s process for awarding Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) licenses and its oversight of SBICs to ensure program integrity and mitigate financial loss. Our scope of work included 80 active leveraged SBICs licensed from October 1, 2022, through June 30, 2025. 

SBA established adequate SBIC licensing and oversight controls to provide reasonable assurance of compliance with regulatory and program requirements and complied with applicable requirements when awarding SBIC licenses and conducting oversight. We reviewed a small sample of licenses and examination reports based on our assessment of SBA’s licensing and oversight controls which provided reasonable assurance of SBA’s compliance with regulatory and program requirements. Specifically, of the 80 active SBICs that were licensed from October 1, 2022, through June 30, 2025, we reviewed four license approvals, one license pending approval, and three SBIC examination reports. We found no material deficiencies or problem areas warranting additional review. 

We made no recommendations in this report.

This report provides a summary of the results of the AmeriCorps OIG's peer review of the NEA OIG's system of quality control over its audit operations for the three year period ending March 31, 2025.  Peer reviews result in a report rating of pass, pass with deficiencies, or fail.  The NEA OIG received a report rating of pass.

Congress passed three coronavirus relief acts within a 1-year period that provided more than $275 billion for an Education Stabilization Fund to prevent, prepare for, and respond to the coronavirus, including $189.5 billion for the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER). The American Rescue Plan Act (ARP) provided $122 billion for ESSER to help State educational agencies (SEA) and local educational agencies (LEA) safely reopen and sustain the safe operation of schools and address the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on students. Ensuring that ARP ESSER funds are used effectively by grantees and achieve the intended impact is critical to help address the needs of students and educators. The Puerto Rico Department of Education (Puerto Rico DOE) was allocated about $3 billion in ARP ESSER funds to support 860 schools serving about 261,000 students. The objective of our inspection was to determine whether Puerto Rico DOE ensured that (1) services contracted for and paid with ARP ESSER funds to measure students’ academic progress were provided as required and (2) results were used as intended to modify individual students’ instructional plans and help prevent academic failure.

We found that Puerto Rico DOE did not ensure that the services contracted for and paid with ARP ESSER funds to measure students’ academic progress were provided in accordance with the executed contract. It also did not ensure that teachers used the results of the contractor-administered student academic proficiency assessments as intended to modify individual students’ instructional plans and help prevent academic failure. As a result, Puerto Rico DOE used $3.9 million in ARP ESSER funds to pay for student academic proficiency interim assessments that a contractor did not administer timely (10- and 20-week assessments) or at all (30- and 40-week assessments), and that did not achieve the intended purposes of helping teachers develop differentiated work plans based on each student’s academic lag, diagnose students’ immediate learning needs, and implement targeted re-teaching strategies effectively. We made four recommendations to ensure that the $3.9 million in ARP ESSER funds are not wasted, future contract work is adequately supervised by Puerto Rico DOE, and contractors are not paid for services they did not perform or that were outside the scope of the contract

What the Office of Inspector General Evaluated 

To ensure senior-level executives’ travel complied with the Library’s travel policies and federal regulations and to detect any indication of misuse of travel resources or non-business travel charges.

What the Office of Inspector General Found

We did not find any instances where senior executive travel did not comply with Library travel policies or federal regulations. 

This report presents the results of our audits of mail delivery operations in the Ohio 1 District in the Central Area.

The U.S. Postal Service’s mission is to provide timely, reliable, secure, and affordable mail and package delivery to over 160 million residential and business addresses across the country. To fulfill this role, the Postal Service is committed to ensuring its delivery platform and services are always a trusted, visible, and valued part of America’s social and economic infrastructure. This includes leveraging people, technology, and systems at approximately 300 processing facilities and 31,100 post offices, stations, and branches in the nation to provide worldclass visibility of mail and packages as they move through the Postal Service’s integrated system. The U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General (OIG) reviews delivery operations at facilities across the country and provides management with timely feedback in furtherance of this mission.

This report presents a summary of the results of our self-initiated audits of delivery operations and property conditions at three delivery units, as well as district-wide delivery operations in the Ohio 1 District in the Central Area (Project Number 25-141). The delivery units included Station B and Shaker Heights Station in Cleveland, OH, and the Cleveland Heights Branch in Cleveland Heights, OH.