Open Recommendations

We recommend FTA recovers $99,226 from the State, if applicable.

We recommend that the Fort Peck Tribes develop and implement controls to verify that all applicants for LIHEAP assistance report all royalty income in their applications.

We recommend that the Fort Peck Tribe develop and implement policies and procedures to track credit balances in beneficiaries’ accounts held by energy suppliers to ensure that all unused LIHEAP funds are returned to the tribe so that excess funds can be used to provide assistance for additional benefits and for other purposes, such as crisis situations and residential weatherization, as described in the Manual.

We recommend that the Fort Peck Tribes develop and implement policies and procedures to ensure that FFRs, Carryover Reports, and Household Reports are properly completed and timely submitted to ACF.

We recommend that the Fort Peck Tribes develop and implement controls to verify that FFRs and Carryover Reports accurately report the amount of unobligated funds in the current year and to ensure that the tribes repay to the Federal Government amounts that can no longer be obligated because those amounts exceeded the 2-year grant period

We recommend that the Fort Peck Tribes refund to the Federal Government $436,765 for grant funds that remained unobligated after the 2-year grant period.

Rec No. 2(d): Disallow and, if already used, recover education awards made to members who did not serve the minimum required service hours.

Re-examine the controls to prevent the erroneous posting of earnings for individuals with previously removed or disclaimed earnings.

Continue to develop required ONAP-LOS capabilities using cloud environments as appropriate

Coordinate and participate in resolving all open recommendations from evaluation report IT System Management and Oversight of the Section 184 Program (2018-OE-0004)

We recommend the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security: Develop and implement a method to track the use of settlement agreements throughout the Department and its components.

(U) Rec. B.1.a: The DoD OIG recommended that the Commander, U.S. European Command update the annex W's for 3T concept plans and operation plans to meet operational contract support requirements.

We recommend that the Director of the Peace Corps provide country directors with additional support to resolve allegations of drug involvement under manual section 204, 3.5.1 and specifically consider the efficacy of reasonable suspicion drug testing as a means of doing so.

We recommend that the Office of General Counsel review the evidentiary standard required to administratively separate a Volunteer suspected of involvement with drugs to determine whether the standard, and its application, is consistent with promoting the integrity of the program and continues to serve the policy interest of the Peace Corps.

We recommend that CMS work with Treasury and QHP issuers to resolve the potentially improper financial assistance payments, which we estimate to be $504,889,518, for policies for which there was no documentation provided to verify enrollees had paid their premiums

We recommend that CMS work with Treasury and QHP issuers to collect improper financial assistance payments, which we estimate to be $434,398,168, for policies for which the payments were not authorized in accordance with Federal requirements

We recommend CMS clarify guidance for QHP issuers on Federal requirements for terminating an enrollee’s coverage when the enrollee fails to pay his or her monthly premium.

CMS should ensure that valid national drug codes are reported for drugs.

We recommend that the Social Security Administration, as part of its Debt Management modernization initiative, establish controls in the new Debt Management Product that ensure technicians can only use the administrative tolerance waiver for overpayments allowable under the provision.

We recommend that the FEMA Chief Component Human Capital Officer: Adhere to the responsibilities defined in FEMA's Premium Pay Policy and/or update the policy as needed to enact workable steps to enforce the annual premium pay cap.

CMS should increase oversight of general inpatient care claims and focus particularly on general inpatient care provided in SNFs, given the higher rate at which these stays were inappropriate;

CMS should develop and execute a strategy to work directly with hospices to ensure that they are providing drugs covered under the hospice benefit as necessary and that the cost of drugs covered under the benefit are not inappropriately shifted to Part D;

CMS should include on Hospice Compare deficiency data from surveys, including information about complaints filed and resulting deficiencies;

CMS should take appropriate actions to follow up with hospices that engage in practices or have characteristics that raise concerns;