Open Recommendations

Consider OIG's fraud risk inventory to improve CPD's own fraud risk assessments and develop a program-specific fraud risk map and compendium.

Develop and implement a fraud risk checklist or other instrument as part of CPD's monitoring oversight requirements, to be completed as part of each remote and onsite monitoring review.

Develop and implement a fraud analytics strategy using available data, including but not limited to data and information collected during the grantee risk assessment and monitoring processes, to begin conducting data analyses to identify potential fraud risks for further review.

We recommend the Administrator direct the Associate Administrator for Disaster Assistance to• review the applications of sole proprietors and independent contractors that included numbers of employees but no Employer Identification Number; and• remedy the $3.5 billion disbursed to sole proprietors and $1 billion disbursed to independent contractors that exceeded the amount allowed by SBA’s policy.

Develop an enterprise architecture that includes information security considerations and the resulting risk to the Agency, as well as incorporates STBs existing cyber security architecture.

Complete the transition from traditional three (3) year authorizations to ongoing authorizations for STB-LAN.

Implement documented processes for collecting and reporting performance metrics at the organization and system level to assess the effectiveness of Information Security Continuous Monitoring program.

Develop a process to make improvements to the effectiveness of its ISCM program through the collection and reporting of quantitative and qualitative performance metrics, and lessons learned.

We recommend that the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration update its policies and procedures to require verification that accreditation bodies maintain records that contain sufficient detail to support each accreditation decision.

We recommend the Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training Administration improve funding opportunity announcements for discretionary grant programs by: a. Evaluating program goals using the SMART concept or a similar approach, and including required metrics that directly measure the success of each program goal, are clear, and are easily verifiable; b. Having a scoring element covering completeness of applicant proposals for items requested in the announcement that reduces in points when the proposal is missing an element(s), significantly changes the wording of an element(s), or incorrectly addresses an element(s); and c. Identifying targeted occupations in the FOA language and/or scoring…

We recommend the Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training Administration establish internal controls to verify participant eligibility, verify submitted ETA Forms 671 (Program Registration and Apprenticeship Agreement) are the current OMB approved version and completed correctly, and encourage use of interim credentials when the form indicates a competency or hybrid model apprenticeship.

We recommend the Acting Administrator for the Wage and Hour Division develop a mechanism to enable the agency to determine how effective conciliations are at getting back wage payments to workers, and address any weaknesses identified in ensuring complainants received owed back wages prior to closing conciliations.

Issue addendums to the Resource Management Directive System 2550B travel policy or equivalent to:a. Require approvers to estimate and compare the total cost of temporary change of station versus extended temporary duty travel and authorize the one that is most advantageous for the Agency, cost and other factors considered.b. Require the travel card cancellation and closeout process to occur within a predetermined number of days.

We recommend the Deputy Secretary Ensure the CIO is a lead member with voting rights of DOL’s executive strategy and management boards and committees including but not limited to the MRB, ESS Governance Board, COVID-19 Coordination team, and ERMC.

We recommend that the Acting Assistant Secretary for Occupational Safety and Health implement a policy for future emphasis programs, that minimizes the lapse in enforcement between canceled, revised or new programs.

We recommend that the Acting Assistant Secretary for Occupational Safety and Health establish meaningful goals and processes to assess whether OSHA’s outreach events are achieving the desired results, in reaching a targeted number of workers at risk of exposure to silica.

We recommend the following to the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Employment and Training: Examine the effectiveness of Benefit Accuracy Measurement’s contact verification process to ensure it reflects the current methods claimants use to seek work.

We recommend the following to the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Employment and Training: Provide guidance to states notifying them that formal and informal warnings are not permissible under Federal work search law.

We recommend the following to the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Employment and Training: Include in the UI improper payment estimate: (1) overpayments related to work search formal and informal warnings; and (2) payments to claimants who provide no or insufficient documentation to support eligibility with respect to work search, consistent with the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act and OMB guidance that defines improper payments.

Implement a plan that brings the five new noncompliant land use agreements into compliance with the West Los Angeles Leasing Act of 2016, the draft master plan, and other federal laws, allowing reasonable time to correct deficiencies noted in this report.

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