Federal Reports

We determined that PBGC could reduce the risk of property loss or theft by strengthening its internal controls. PBGC does not ensure that bar-coded inventory labels are consistently affixed to newly received property within a reasonable time and does not ensure that accountable property is entered into the property management system in a timely manner after property is received. PBGC does not require any follow-up to be performed to locate accountable property “not found” during the annual inventory process, and such property is simply written off after two or three years. Such property includes assets such as flash drives that could contain personally identifiable information (PII), and loss or theft of such property in particular could result in serious reputational harm to the Corporation. We made two recommendations related to receiving of new inventory and follow-up on items not located during the annual inventory. PBGC agreed with the recommendations and plans to compete action by November 2020.

The Acquisition Management Function at the Railroad Retirement Board Was Not Fully Adequate or Effective

The Implementaton of the Disability Program Improvement Plan at the Railroad Retirement Board Did Not Result in a Fully Established Fraud Risk Assessment Process

The Use of Medical Experts During Disability Determinations at the Railroad Retirement Board Can Be Improved

The Railroad Retirement Board Disability Programs Do Not Effectively Consider Fraud Risk Indicators in the Disability Decision Process

The East Vancouver Carrier Unit, Vancouver, WA, is in the Portland District of the Western Area. The unit has 87 delivery routes (62 city and 25 rural) delivered by 131 carriers (89 city and 42 rural). We used geolocation data to identify units with stop-the-clock (STC) scans that occurred at the delivery unit property instead of at the intended delivery address. The East Vancouver Carrier Unit had 10,571 STC scans at the delivery unit between May and July 2019. Our objective was to evaluate the package delivery scanning process on select routes at the East Vancouver Carrier Unit.