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Small Business Administration
COVID-19 Pandemic EIDL and PPP Loan Fraud Landscape Recommendations Update
Over the course of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, SBA disbursed approximately $1.2 trillion of COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loan and Paycheck Protection Program funds. The economic assistance was intended to help eligible small business owners and entrepreneurs adversely affected by the crisis.
In Report 23-09, we estimated SBA disbursed more than $200 billion in potentially fraudulent loans through its COVID-19 relief programs. To establish this estimate, OIG used investigative casework, prior OIG reporting, and advanced data analytics to identify multiple schemes used by fraudsters to steal from the American taxpayer and exploit programs meant to help those in need.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic was declared a national emergency in March 2020 through the issuance of OIG’s fraud landscape report in June 2023, OIG issued 77 pandemic-related recommendations to SBA. Of the 77 recommendations, the agency had taken corrective actions to close 38 of them and 39 recommendations remained open as of June 2023. SBA has been working on implementing the corrective actions necessary to close the open recommendations.
Implementation Review of Corrective Action Plan: GSA's Mismanagement of Contract Employee Access Cards Places GSA Personnel, Federal Property, and Data at Risk, Report Number A190085/A/6/F21001, November 4, 2020
Audit of Community Service and Other Grants Awarded To KCHO-FM, Licensed to Chico State Enterprises, Chico, California, for the Period July 1, 2020 Through June 30, 2023, Report No. ASR2501-2505
Audit of Community Service and Other Grants Awarded To KXJZ-FM and KXPR-FM, Capital Public Radio, Licensed to California State University, Sacramento; Sacramento, California for the Period July 1, 2020 Through June 30, 2023, Report No. ASR2407-2504
Audit of Community Service and Other Grants Awarded KHSU-FM, Licensed to California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt, Arcata, California for The Period July 1, 2020 Through June 30, 2023, Report No. ASR2502-2506
The U.S. Postal Service relies on pre‑career employees to supplement its regular workforce. Pre-career employees are temporary workers who do not receive the same employee benefits as career employees and are not always guaranteed a regular schedule. The Postal Service’s 10-year strategic plan identified “unacceptably high rates of pre‑career employee turnover” as a key challenge and created a goal of stabilizing and empowering the workforce, which included a reduction of pre‑career workforce turnover by 50 percent.
The U.S. Postal Service implemented the Contract Logistics Enterprise Acquisition Resource (CLEAR) system and the Transportation Management System (TMS) in April 2022 to enhance the efficiency and reliability of its transportation network. CLEAR was designed to improve the management of transportation contracts, streamline payment processing, and enhance performance tracking. The TMS provides scheduling details, monitors real-time trip activities, processes payments, and tracks vouchers. The TMS relies on rate information from the CLEAR system to generate accurate trip payments. From April 2022 through March 2024, the Postal Service spent approximately $2.3 billion on dedicated transportation services.
