Federal Reports

The Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 (CHIPRA) directly affects both the Children's Health Insurance Program and Medicaid. Under CHIPRA, Congress appropriated $3.225 billion for qualifying States to receive performance bonus payments (bonus payments) for Federal fiscal years (FYs) 2009 through 2013 to offset the costs of increased enrollment of children in Medicaid.

DHS’ information security program was effective for fiscal year 2018 because the Department earned the targeted maturity rating, “Managed and Measurable” (Level 4) in four of five functions, as compared to last year’s lower overall rating, “Consistently Implemented” (Level 3). We attributed DHS’ progress to improvements in information security risk, configuration management practices, continuous monitoring, and more effective security training. By addressing the remaining deficiencies, DHS can further improve its security program ensuring its systems adequately protect the critical and sensitive data they store and process.

Our objective was to determine whether the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, New York Division, implemented effective controls for accountable property, case management, and training. Based on risk analysis of closed case count and workhours, number of hotline referrals, and National Compliance Review occurrence, we selected the New York Division for our review.

Each year over 301,000 Postal Service employees participate in the Uniform Program. As part of the program, eligible employees, such as letter carriers, window clerks, and postal police officers, are issued a Uniform Allowance Purchase Card (UAPC) to purchase approved uniform items from licensed vendors. In calendar years (CY) 2016 to 2018, there were an average of 196 licensed vendors as part of the program. Our objective was to evaluate the effectiveness of management controls over the Postal Service’s Uniform Program. Our scope included UAPC transactions for CY 2016 through 2018, which included 1.1 million transactions and $235.7 million in purchases.

This report presents the results of the Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements No.18 examination for the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) FinancialManagement Services (FMS) description of its financial systems used to process user entitiesfinancial transactions throughout the period October 1, 2018 to June 30, 2019.

What We Looked AtWe reviewed the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority's single audit report for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2018, in order to identify findings that affect directly awarded Department of Transportation programs. An independent auditor prepared the single audit report, dated December 19, 2018.What We FoundWe found that the report contained a subrecipient monitoring finding that needs prompt action from the Federal Transit Administration's (FTA) management.RecommendationsWe recommend that FTA ensures that the Authority complies with the subrecipient monitoring requirements.