Open Recommendations

Treasury OIG should confirm if the transactions noted as unsupported expenditures within Grants greater than or equal to $50,000, Transfers greater than or equal to $50,000, Aggregate Reporting less than $50,000, and Aggregate Payments to Individuals payment can be supported. If support is not provided, Treasury OIG should recoup the funds or request that Nebraska provide support for replacement expenses, not previously charged, that were eligible during the CRF period of performance. Further, based on Nebraska's responsiveness to Treasury OIG's requests and its ability to provide sufficient documentation and/or replace unsupported transactions charged to the CRF with valid expenditures, we…

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We recommend the Vice President, Major Projects, develop procedures to ensure an assessment of risk is completed and Project Approval Board and/or Project Review Board approval is obtained prior to purchasing or providing pre payments for long-lead procurements.

We recommend the Vice President, Major Projects, verify emerging risks are included in the Project Risk and Contingency Tool prior to requesting any additional project funding approvals from the Project Approval Board and/or Project Review Board.

We recommend the Vice President, Major Projects, develop procedures to ensure that emerging risks are included in the Risk and Readiness Review prior the presentation to the Project Approval Board and Project Review Board.

The Under Secretary for Health ensures that required suicide risk and intervention training includes suicide risk identification screening and evaluation requirements, procedures, and instruction.

The Under Secretary for Health considers establishing benchmarks for suicide risk screening and evaluation that reflect the clinical importance of suicide risk identification requirements and takes action as warranted.

The Under Secretary for Health ensures monitoring of adherence to suicide risk identification screening and evaluation setting-specific requirements.

The Under Secretary for Health ensures actions taken to address barriers to completing suicide risk screening and evaluation are effective to increase adherence to annual and setting-specific requirements in all clinical settings.

The Under Secretary for Health ensures non-mental health clinical specialty leaders are aware of and adherent to the suicide risk identification screening and evaluation requirements.

We recommend the Director of the Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs develop policies and procedures for the monthly quality control review, provide training to the control operators, and monitor that the reviews are performed in accordance with such policies and procedures.

We recommend the Deputy Chief Financial Officer develop policies and procedures to ensure all non-GAAP policies are identified and reported to the Division of Financial Reporting timely.

We recommend the Director of the Division of Federal Employees’, Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation design and implement monitoring procedures to periodically review control activities for effectiveness and develop action steps as appropriate based on such results.

We recommend the Assistant Secretary for ETA design and implement monitoring controls to ensure Federal Project Officer responses are obtained and reviewed for all delinquent cost reports.

We recommend the Assistant Secretary for ETA design and implement monitoring controls to enforce current policies and procedures for Federal Project Officers to timely review cost reports.

We recommend the Acting Chief Information Officer perform an analysis of the other operating system servers within the U.S. Department of Labor environment to determine if other servers were incorrectly configured.

We recommend the Acting Chief Information Officer implement the proper configurations for the impacted operating system servers.

We recommend the Acting Chief Information Officer configure the systems to adhere to the password requirements from the U.S. Department of Labor Cybersecurity Policy Portfolio.