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Federal Reports
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Social Security Administration
Match of New York City Death Information Against Social Security Administration Records
Objective: To determine whether the Social Security Administration issued payments to beneficiaries who were deceased according to New York City’s vital statistics records.
This Annual Plan presents the major initiatives and priorities the OIG intends to undertake in FYS 2025-2026 to assist the U.S. Department of Education (Department) in fulfilling its responsibilities to America’s taxpayers and students. The plan details the assignment areas and resources that the OIG plans to devote to evaluating the efficiency, effectiveness, and integrity of Department programs and operations. The plan incorporates suggestions from Department leaders and staff, Congress, and the Office of Management and Budget.
Management Letter: Control Deficiency Identified During the Audit of National Archives and Records Administration’s Financial Statements for Fiscal Year 2024
For our audit of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s (the Department’s) Enterprise Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (ECDM) program, our objective was to assess the effectiveness of the program. To address this objective, we assessed data quality, data security, and aspects of program management in a recent ECDM tool procurement decision. We found that I. ECDM data quality does not fully support Department oversight and reporting needs; II. The National Institute of Standards and Technology does not consistently control and thoroughly test the ECDM program’s information system changes; III. The ECDM program’s information system is relatively secure but has some internal security weaknesses; IV. Deficiencies in ECDM program management place future enterprise cybersecurity tool deployments at risk; and V. The Department does not fully incorporate bureau-incurred costs in its ECDM project cost tracking.
U.S. Department of the Interior Bureaus Must Improve Federal Oil and Gas Internal Controls To Ensure Oversight of Financial Risks to the Government From Bankruptcies
We performed this audit to determine whether Federal Student Aid's (FSA) oversight of its contractor’s acceptability review process ensured that annual proprietary institutions audits meet applicable audit reporting requirements. We found that FSA’s oversight of its contractor’s acceptability review process could be improved to ensure that annual proprietary institution audits meet applicable audit reporting requirements. We identified the following weaknesses in FSA’s oversight processes:
• FSA did not ensure its contractor’s compliance audit acceptability review process included audit reporting requirements necessary for program oversight.
• FSA’s sampling methodology used to select some proprietary institution audits for quality control reviews (QCR) had not been reassessed since it was established around 2005.
• FSA’s oversight activities relating to some proprietary institution audits did not always identify instances where audit reporting requirements necessary for program oversight were not met.
• FSA did not perform an additional level of review of audit reporting requirements for proprietary institution audits that were identified by its contractor as requiring review and resolution by FSA.
In addition, the Other Matters section of this report includes information on a substantial backlog of financial statement audits identified by the contractor for detailed review and resolution by FSA.
