Federal Reports

Semiannual Report to the Congress April 1, 2013 - September 30, 2013

This report summarizes the oversight work performed by EAC OIG during the 6-month period ended September 30, 2013.

This report summarizes work we initiated and completed during this semiannual period on a number of critical departmental activities. Over the past 6 months, our office issued 11 audits, inspections, and responses to Congressional requests addressing programs overseen by the Economic Development Administration, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and the Department itself.

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We issued a management information report to alert the Department to serious fraud and corruption in Educational Services (SES) tutoring programs. We noted that the OIG has experienced a significant increase in the number of investigations involving fraud and corruption among SES providers. The cases have involved falsification of billing and attendance records, corruption by public officials, conflicts of interest, and the use of improper financial incentives to enroll students into the programs. These investigations, combined with OIG audit work conducted over the last decade, have identified a lack of oversight and monitoring of SES providers by SEAs that leaves SES programs vulnerable to waste, fraud, and abuse. We made a number of recommendations that, if implemented, would mitigate the risk of fraud and corruption in SES or similar programs involving services provided by third parties who bill on a per-child basis.