Federal Reports

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.

OIG performed Agreed-Upon Procedures for assessing information reported by USDA’s NFC

The Office of Inspector General (OIG) completed a final action verification of all 11 recommendations in our July 29, 2016, report on Forest Service Wildland Fire Activities— Hazardous Fuels Reduction (Audit Report 08601-0004-41). Final action verification determines whether the final action documentation the agency provides to the Office of the Chief Financial Officer (OCFO) supports the agency’s management decision reached with OIG.1, 2 Our objective was to determine whether the documentation Forest Service (FS) provided OCFO was sufficient to close the recommendations made in Audit Report 08601-0004-41.