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Small Business Administration
U.S. Small Business Administration, Office of Inspector General's Spring 2025 Semiannual Report to Congress
We are pleased to present our report for the period October 1, 2024, to March 31, 2025. In this semiannual period, our audit, evaluation, and investigative activities identified more than $75.1 million in questioned costs; funds put to better use; restitutions, recoveries, fees, and fines; and opportunities for the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to improve its programs and operations.
TVA’s mission of service was set forth in the TVA Act of 1933. While the mandate to provide affordable electricity, manage the river systems, and promote economic development in the Tennessee Valley has remained constant for 92 years, TVA has had to transform itself in areas such as methods of electricity generation, funding approaches, skills, technology, and more. Some transformations came about by opportunities like innovation, while others came about in reaction to constraints. Today, TVA finds itself in another stage of transformation as it addresses significant requirements to grow clean generation capacity. Our office will stand with TVA as we fulfill our mission to provide independent and objective oversight that promotes effective and efficient operations and prevents and detects fraud, waste, and abuse.
The VA OIG conducted this review to determine whether VA complied with the requirements of the Payment Integrity Information Act of 2019 (PIIA) for FY 2024. PIIA requires federal agencies to identify and review all programs and activities they administer that may be susceptible to significant improper payments based on OMB guidance. PIIA also requires each OIG to review its agency’s improper payment reports and issue an annual report. In FY 2024, VA reported improper and unknown payment estimates totaling $2.2 billion for seven programs. Of that amount, $1.1 billion (about 50 percent) represented a monetary loss, and the remaining $1.1 billion was considered either a nonmonetary loss that cannot be recovered or an unknown payment. These results represent a reduction of about $1 billion (32 percent) from FY 2023 results. VA satisfied five of the six requirements under PIIA. VA did not meet requirement 6 because it did not report an improper and unknown payment rate of less than 10 percent for two programs that had estimates in the materials accompanying their financial statements. VA met additional requirements for high-priority programs by providing quarterly updates to OMB that included plans to prevent and recover monetary losses from improper payments. The OIG recommended the under secretary for benefits reduce improper and unknown payments to below 10 percent for the Pension Program—a repeat recommendation from the previous two fiscal years’ reports—and the under secretary for health reduce improper and unknown payments to below 10 percent for the Purchased Long-Term Services and Supports Program—a repeat recommendation each year since the OIG’s first PIIA report for FY 2020.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Inspector General conducted this audit to examine locality pay for employees working in a telework and remote work status. The objective was to determine whether the EPA ensures employees are paid the correct locality pay in accordance with regulations and policy.
Summary of Findings
The EPA cannot ensure that employees are paid the correct locality pay because it does not have comprehensive or reliable data to verify employees’ worksite locations. Without a mechanism to verify an employee’s worksite location against his or her locality pay, the Agency remains at risk of overpaying or underpaying employees.
This Office of Inspector General (OIG) Healthcare Facility Inspection program report describes the results of a focused evaluation of the care provided at the VA North Florida/South Georgia Veterans Health System.
This evaluation focused on five key content domains: • Culture • Environment of care • Patient safety • Primary care • Veteran-centered safety net
The OIG issued seven recommendations for improvement in two domains: 1. Environment of care • Maintain, inspect, and test medical equipment • Secure medications • Store oxygen tanks • Clean food storage areas • Remove expired supplies • Mark equipment for repair and remove dirty items from storage areas 2. Patient Safety • Sustained compliance with Joint Commission accreditation standards
At the request of the Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA) Supply Chain, we examined the cost proposal submitted by a contractor for designing, fabricating, and delivering hydraulic turbine runners and components as specified by TVA. Our examination objective was to determine if the contractor's cost proposal was fairly stated.
In our opinion, the contractor’s cost proposal was overstated. Specifically, we determined the contractor’s proposed (1) markup rates were overstated compared to recent actual costs and (2) fixed price project costs included excessive contingency costs and profit. We estimated TVA could avoid about $14.1 million over the potential $75 million contract by (1) negotiating appropriate reductions to the markup rates, (2) removing excessive contingency costs from fixed price projects, and (3) reducing the profit on fixed price projects.
