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Department of Health & Human Services
CMS Is Not Systematically Tracking Whether States Return Federal Shares of Medicaid Managed Care Remittances
HUD did not comply with PIIA because it did not report compliant improper and unknown payment estimates for the Office of Public and Indian Housing’s Tenant-Based Rental Assistance (PIH-TBRA) program and the Office of Multifamily Housing Programs’ Project-Based Rental Assistance (MF-PBRA) program. These were HUD’s two largest program expenditures, totaling more than $50 billion in fiscal year 2024. This noncompliance is significant because this is the eighth consecutive year in which HUD has been unable to produce PIH-TBRA and MF-PBRA improper and unknown payment estimates, and that deficiency has contributed to HUD’s noncompliance with improper payment laws for 12 consecutive years.
These programs present payment integrity challenges because they entail thousands of program administrators outside of HUD processing large volumes of payments using nonstandarized processes, and supporting documentation needed for testing is not maintained at HUD. The lack of a detailed approach to resolve these systemic challenges, including coordination by leadership, has prevented HUD from making the progress needed to achieve compliance.
We also determined that HUD did not comply with the Do Not Pay Initiative (DNP) as required by the Payment Integrity Information Act of 2019 because it did not consistently use DNP for prepayment verification. This occurred in large part because the computer matching agreement between HUD and Treasury, related to DNP, expired in 2019 and has still not been renewed. Additionally, we found HUD’s governance of DNP implementation to be weak. Without this computer matching process in place and because of weak governance around DNP implementation, HUD’s risk of improper payments increased. At least $212 million of HUD funds were technically improper payments since the funds were paid to at least 11 entities that did not have an active registration on SAM.gov.
For fiscal years 2023 and 2024, OIG evaluated the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights’ efforts to ensure compliance and accountability among USDA agencies and staff, in accordance with applicable civil rights laws and regulations.
DOJ Press Release: Local men arraigned in federal court in separate cases alleging child exploitation via online chat, social media sites & in-person abuse
The Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2012 (WPEA) was signed into law on November 27, 2012 (Public Law 112-199). The law strengthens protections for Federal employees who disclose evidence of waste, fraud, or abuse. The anti-gag provision, codified in the WPEA, requires all Federal agency nondisclosure policies, forms, or agreements to include an explicit statement notifying employees of their rights to report wrongdoing and make protected disclosures to an Inspector General, Office of Special Counsel, and to Congress. Our objective was to determine whether the Department includes the anti-gag provision statement, as required by the WPEA, in nondisclosure policies, forms, or agreements. We found that the Department did not include the anti-gag provision statement, required by the WPEA, in all applicable nondisclosure agreements and forms. Specifically, we identified 6 agreements or forms developed by or currently being used by 3 of the Department’s 17 principal offices that did not contain the required statement. This occurred because the Department does not have documented policies and procedures relating to the development of nondisclosure forms or agreements and has not developed a process to ensure that the anti-gag provision statement is included, when required, in nondisclosure policies, forms, and agreements.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Inspector General is issuing this report to Notify the Agency of concerns identified during a review of Inflation Reduction Act grants. The concerns relate to an EPA policy that applies to all Agency subawards, not just to Inflation Reduction Act subawards.
Summary of Findings
The OIG has identified concerns regarding the terms and conditions listed within the revised EPA Subaward Policy, commonly referred to as the Subaward Policy, Amended Grants Policy Issuance (GPI) 16-01, effective October 1, 2024. The Subaward Policy’s statements regarding subrecipient access to information about mandatory disclosure requirements and whistleblower protections and regarding the OIG’s right to access records are inconsistent, incomplete, and not easily navigable.
