Open Recommendations

The Chief, Taxpayer Services, should ensure that TAC managers enforce procedures for providing CSS cards at TACs.

The Chief, Taxpayer Services, should Ensure that TAC managers enforce procedures for wearing name tags at TACs.

The Chief, Taxpayer Services should ensure that TAC managers enforce procedures for treating non-English speaking customers properly at TACs.

Establish metrics to determine whether its implemented deliverables are improving efficiency and accuracy of the Agency’s disability programs, as intended.

Establish a plan of when and how it will implement the remaining deliverables provided under the contract, as well as how SSA will track progress of the implementation to determine whether the analyses, prototypes and recommendations provided in those deliverables improve SSA’s disability programs.

The VA Eastern Kansas Healthcare System Director ensures the chief of primary care reviews, strengthens, and implements system Patient Aligned Care Team processes for tracking and following up on community care consults ordered, particularly diagnostic consults, to verify patients receive care and to review and act upon consult results, as clinically indicated.

The VA Eastern Kansas Healthcare System Director reviews institutional disclosures conducted by the system over the past 12 months, including the patient’s institutional disclosure, and ensures these disclosures fully adhere to Veterans Health Administration Directive 1004.08, Disclosure of Adverse Events to Patients, October 31, 2018, including documenting the details of the adverse event and discussion points of the disclosure, and takes action needed to remediate disclosures that do not meet these standards.

The VA Eastern Kansas Healthcare System Director ensures community care staff make the required three attempts to obtain patients’ community care records within 90 days of completed appointments, and monitors for compliance.

The VA Eastern Kansas Healthcare System Director collaborates with the Kansas City VA Medical Center Director to review the frequency and circumstances of community care records being sent to the incorrect VA facility, develops, and implements a process for ensuring community care records are delivered to the correct ordering VA facility, educates staff on the process, and monitors for compliance.

The Under Secretary for Health establishes and monitors compliance with a process that ensures the Veterans Health Administration ordering provider receives urgent non-life-threatening abnormal test results from care obtained in the community, such as the diagnostic positron emission tomography scan results described in this report, within a time frame that allows timely attention and appropriate action to be taken.

The Veterans Integrated Service Network Director, in conjunction with the Veterans Health Administration National Center for Lung Cancer Screening Program Office, evaluates the VA Eastern Kansas Healthcare System’s Lung Cancer Screening Program to ensure operational adherence to the Lung Cancer Screening Program requirements, and takes action as needed.

The VA Eastern Kansas Healthcare System Director ensures the chief of primary care reviews, strengthens, and implements system Patient Aligned Care Team processes for tracking and following up on community care consults ordered, particularly diagnostic consults, to verify patients receive care and to review and act upon consult results, as clinically indicated.

The VA Eastern Kansas Healthcare System Director reviews institutional disclosures conducted by the system over the past 12 months, including the patients institutional disclosure, and ensures these disclosures fully adhere to Veterans Health Administration Directive 1004.08, Disclosure of Adverse Events to Patients, October 31, 2018, including documenting the details of the adverse event and discussion points of the disclosure, and takes action needed to remediate disclosures that do not meet these standards.

The VA Eastern Kansas Healthcare System Director ensures community care staff make the required three attempts to obtain patients community care records within 90 days of completed appointments, and monitors for compliance.

The VA Eastern Kansas Healthcare System Director collaborates with the Kansas City VA Medical Center Director to review the frequency and circumstances of community care records being sent to the incorrect VA facility, develops, and implements a process for ensuring community care records are delivered to the correct ordering VA facility, educates staff on the process, and monitors for compliance.

The Under Secretary for Health establishes and monitors compliance with a process that ensures the Veterans Health Administration ordering provider receives urgent non-life-threatening abnormal test results from care obtained in the community, such as the diagnostic positron emission tomography scan results described in this report, within a time frame that allows timely attention and appropriate action to be taken.

The Veterans Integrated Service Network Director, in conjunction with the Veterans Health Administration National Center for Lung Cancer Screening Program Office, evaluates the VA Eastern Kansas Healthcare Systems Lung Cancer Screening Program to ensure operational adherence to the Lung Cancer Screening Program requirements, and takes action as needed.

We recommend that CFTC implement a training framework that ensures all travel cardholders complete mandatory training requirements prior to card issuance and that purchase card AOs complete mandatory training requirements prior to performing AO task approvals.

We recommend that CFTC include pre-approval checks for fund availability in its training; enhance controls to alert AOs of disbursements requiring approval before the 30-day timeframe expires and ensure that disbursements are not approved without adequate supporting documents.

We recommend that CFTC enforce the use of centrally billed accounts for travel cards used for international travel.

We recommend that CFTC develop and implement a comprehensive policy that mandates the immediate deactivation of all purchase and travel cards upon notification by HR of an employee’s separation or transfer. Additionally, instituting a regular monitoring system to track and validate the deactivation status of charge cards for all separated employees is recommended. Monthly reviews of charge card activity reports should also be conducted to identify any lapses in the deactivation process to prevent unauthorized use.

We recommended that CFTC review, revise, and update all travel policies to align with the current requirements of the Federal Travel Regulations, OMB directives, and the Government Charge Card Abuse Prevention Act.

We recommend the official Acting Chief Operating Officer for FSA continue to solicit, analyze, and incorporate feedback regarding the completion, submission, and processing of the 2025–2026 FAFSA until FSA confirms that issues with the FAFSA process have been resolved.

We recommend the official Acting Chief Operating Officer for FSA ensure that when the FAFSA process undergoes significant revisions in subsequent award years, FSA use the positive practices it implemented for soliciting and incorporating feedback in the 2025–2026 FAFSA process.

We recommend that USAID's Office of Acquisition and Assistance Cost, Audit and Support Division/Contract Audit Management Branch verify that GiveDirectly, Inc., corrects the material weaknesses in
internal control over financial reporting detailed on pages 32 to 34 of the audit report.