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Department of the Interior
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Grants Awarded to the State of Texas, Parks and Wildlife Department, From September 1, 2018, Through August 31, 2020, Under the Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration Program
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Grants Awarded to the State of Texas, Parks and Wildlife Department, From September 1, 2018, Through August 31, 2020, Under the Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration Program
Agreed-Upon Procedures—Employee Benefits, Withholdings, Contributions, and Supplemental Semiannual Headcount Reporting Submitted to the Office of Personnel Management for Fiscal Year 2022
Evaluation of KDAQ-FM, Louisiana State University Board of Supervisors, Compliance with Selected Communications Act and Transparency Requirements, Report No. ECR2214-2214
NASA manages two Agency-wide contracts with the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory for robotic space missions and supporting research. In this audit, we examined the Laboratory’s management of its NASA portfolio relative to cost and schedule and NASA’s management of the contracts.
In coordination with the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee, we conducted an audit to identify potential fraud schemes that could affect HUD’s pandemic funds. We reviewed the funds appropriated by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act and the American Rescue Plan (ARP) Act for the Tenant-Based Rental Assistance (TBRA), Project-Based Rental Assistance (PBRA), HOME Investment Partnerships, and Public Housing Operating Fund programs to identify the fraud risks and potential fraud schemes that they face while delivering services to the public.Our objective was to develop an inventory of fraud risks that HUD had not previously identified for the funds appropriated by the CARES and ARP Acts for the TBRA, PBRA, HOME, and Operating Fund programs.We identified six overall and three program-specific fraud risk factors that increase the chance of fraud occurring by increasing the incentive, opportunity, and likelihood for an individual considering committing fraud. We used these fraud risk factors, along with the results of brainstorming sessions, interviews, and reviews of audit reports, investigations, and press releases from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Office of Inspector General (OIG), and other agencies to develop an inventory of 66 potential fraud schemes that HUD had not previously identified. These fraud schemes could be used to misappropriate the CARES and ARP Act funds for the TBRA, PBRA, HOME, and Operating Fund programs, resulting in emergency funds being diverted from intended beneficiaries.We recommend that HUD use the identified fraud risk factors and inventory of potential fraud risk schemes to enhance its fraud risk assessments. Ultimately, this will increase HUD’s ability to safeguard its CARES and ARP Act funds from fraud and ensure that the funds are used for their intended beneficiaries.
