Open Recommendations

Rec. 1.a: The DoD OIG recommended that the DoD Office of Small Business Programs Director conduct a review, in coordination with the Military Departments and Defense agencies, of all 17 contractors that received DoD Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business set-aside or sole-source contracts but were denied Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business status by the Department of Veterans Affairs Center for Verification and Evaluation to determine if they meet the requirements for Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business status. Based on the review, the Director should take action, as appropriate, against any contractors found to have misrepresented their Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business status to the…

Rec. 1.b: The DoD OIG recommended that the DoD Office of Small Business Programs Director conduct a review, in coordination with the Military Departments and Defense agencies, of all 16 contractors in our sample that received DoD Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business contracts that we determined to be ineligible Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses to determine if they meet the eligibility requirements. Based on the review, the Director should take action, as appropriate, against any contractors found to have misrepresented their Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business status to the DoD to obtain set-aside and sole-source contracts by coordinating with the applicable contracting officer…

Rec. 1.f: The DoD OIG recommended that the DoD Office of Small Business Programs Director implement procedures, in coordination with Defense Pricing and Contracting, requiring contracting personnel to track and monitor the amounts Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses spend on subcontractors that are not Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses throughout contract performance to ensure that contractors do not exceed the required limitations, as defined by the Code of Federal Regulations.

We recommend the Acting Director, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, conduct an independent workforce analysis to determine whether centralizing research of aliens and issuing detainers at the Pacific Enforcement Response Center would be more efficient than performing these tasks there as well as at local research centers.

We recommend the Acting Director, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement evaluate how to consistently track lawful permanent residents with pending convictions.

We recommend that the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services refund $27,545,800 to the Federal Government

We recommend that the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services identify capitation payments made on behalf of deceased beneficiaries before and after our audit period and repay the Federal share of amounts recovered

We recommend that the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services identify and recover unallowable payments made to managed care entities during our audit period on behalf of deceased beneficiaries, which we estimate to be at least $39,873,514

1. The Access Approval Process was not followed for the Century Link Data Center (IT-19-01)

3. Control Weakness over Separated Users and Removal of Inactive Users for Greater than 60 Days (IT-19-03)

Ensure that the Senior Federal Law Enforcement Official cadre participates in National Level Exercises, when applicable, and ESF-13 Table Top Exercises.

Develop and implement guidance on how to evaluate air carrier safety risk assessments to ensure the carrier has performed a comprehensive analysis, identified root causes, and established appropriate corrective actions.

Develop and implement inspector guidance on how to evaluate air carrier safety culture and how it should be factored into oversight decisions.

The Commissioner, Wage and Investment Division, should consider working with its external partners to add retailers in States without a participating location to increase the availability of the payment option

The Commissioner, Wage and Investment Division, should conduct public awareness activities to increase taxpayers’ knowledge of all cash payment options and update internal guidance to reflect the most current information about cash payment options.

We recommend that Opportunities for Williamson and Burnet Counties implement procedures designed to ensure that Federal funds are drawn down only in the amounts needed to meet the immediate cash requirements of its CSBG and LIHEAP-related activities.

We recommend that Opportunities for Williamson and Burnet Counties work with CAS to either be released from the existing indirect cost rate or negotiate a current indirect cost rate for claiming future indirect costs.

We recommend that Opportunities for Williamson and Burnet Counties train employees to follow existing policies and procedures for approval of expenses.

We recommend that Opportunities for Williamson and Burnet Counties instruct and train its finance employees to use the grant year program code built into the accounting software to identify revenues and expenses by specific grant year for all Head Start, CSBG, and LIHEAP general ledger transactions.

We recommend that Opportunities for Williamson and Burnet Counties refund $3,207 in unallowable costs.

We recommend that Opportunities for Williamson and Burnet Counties develop and implement a reasonable basis to allocate meal costs, kitchen salaries, and central office expenses between the Head Start and Senior Nutrition programs in accordance with the benefits received.

Although the Federal marketplace properly determined most individuals’ eligibility for insurance affordability programs, to address the specific deficiencies that we identified, we recommend that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services take steps to ensure that the Federal marketplace corrects an error in its eligibility and enrollment system so that information on whether an individual met the 5 year bar does not automatically carry over from a previous coverage year.

Although the Federal marketplace properly determined most individuals’ eligibility for insurance affordability programs, to address the specific deficiencies that we identified, we recommend that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services take steps to ensure that the Federal marketplace establishes guidance to exclude income from other gains on a Federal tax return submitted by an individual when resolving an income inconsistency.

Although the Federal marketplace properly determined most individuals’ eligibility for insurance affordability programs, to address the specific deficiencies that we identified, we recommend that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services take steps to ensure that the Federal marketplace revises its written guidance so that it does not extend an individual’s inconsistency period when the marketplace receives returned mail.