Open Recommendations

Rec. 2: The DoD OIG recommended that the Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps reconcile the unmatched disbursements for Operation Allies Welcome to the appropriate obligations in the Defense Agencies Initiative system.

Rec. 1.a: The DoD OIG recommended that the Director of the DoD Office for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion acquire or develop, and implement, a DoD-wide automated database to collect and report military equal opportunity complaints.

Rec. 1.b: The DoD OIG recommended that the Director of the DoD Office for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion require that future data collection templates include the following data categories required by DoD Instruction 1350.02: date of the final disposition for military equal opportunity complaints, identification of the military equal opportunity complaints resolved through conflict resolution or dispute resolution, and identification of adjudicators and investigators of military equal opportunity complaints.

Rec. 1.c: The DoD OIG recommended that the Director of the DoD Office for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, in coordination with the Military Services Equal Opportunity Offices, identify controls and clear instructions that minimize errors for the data collection template and then update and implement the template.

Rec. 1.d: The DoD OIG recommended that the Director of the DoD Office for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion develop and implement written guidance requiring more effective quality reviews to improve the integrity of military equal opportunity complaints.

Rec. 1.e: The DoD OIG recommended that the Director of the DoD Office for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion resolve the errors in the FY 2021 military equal opportunity complaints data (Appendix D) before issuing the FY 2021 annual report of military equal opportunity complaints to the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness.

Rec. 2.a: The DoD OIG recommended that the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness approve the DoD-wide automated database as required by DoD Instruction 1350.02 to collect and report military equal opportunity complaints.

Rec. 2.b: The DoD OIG recommended that the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness conduct a review to determine whether the DoD Office for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion has sufficient resources to fulfill its responsibilities under DoD Instruction 1350.02.

Rec. 2.c: The DoD OIG recommended that the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, in coordination with the DoD Office for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and the Military Services' Equal Opportunity Offices, conduct a review to identify terminology within DoD Instruction 1350.02 that needs clarification, including informal complaint and military equal opportunity complaint; and then update DoD Instruction 1350.02 accordingly.

Rec. 2.d: The DoD OIG recommended that the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness update DoD Instruction 1350.02 with specific dates for collecting and annually reporting of military equal opportunity complaints data.

Rec. 3: The DoD OIG recommended that the Secretaries of the Military Departments develop and implement written guidance requiring more effective quality reviews to improve the integrity of data of military equal opportunity complaints.

Rec. 3: The DoD OIG recommended that the Secretaries of the Military Departments develop and implement written guidance requiring more effective quality reviews to improve the integrity of data of military equal opportunity complaints.

We recommend that the Director for HUD's Office of Disaster Recovery work with its grantee to resolve or correct program income balances for the three grants that had program income balances outstanding.

We recommend that the Director for HUD's Office of Disaster Recovery develop and implement controls to ensure that program income balance discrepancies are identified and corrected.

We recommend that the Director for HUD's Office of Disaster Recovery develop and implement controls to ensure that untimely FFRs are identified and corrected.

We recommend that the Director for HUD's Office of Disaster Recovery implement quality control procedures to ensure that HUD staff completes the action plan and QPR checklists.

Develop a process to formally document and monitor implementation of current and future plans to resolve post office suspensions as reported in the Annual Compliance Reports.

We recommend that the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services develop and implement edits in its claim payment system so that the State agency pays only telehealth claims whose HCPCS codes denote the associated services as eligible to be performed via telehealth.

Rec. 4: The DoD OIG recommended that the Commanding General of the Marine Corps Recruiting Command establish a tracking mechanism to capture data on applicants medically disqualified by the U.S. Military Entrance Processing Command to ensure that potentially eligible applicants are provided a choice of whether to proceed with a medical waiver request, and document the reasons a waiver was not requested to inform change to recruiting processes.

Rec. 5: The DoD OIG recommended that the Commander of the U.S. Military Entrance Processing Command update U.S. Military Entrance Processing Command Regulation 40-1 to incorporate changes to policy and procedure due to the implementation of the Military Health System GENESIS.

Update its annual guidance to sites to include more specific direction on payment reporting sites’ collection of useful and consistent data to identify detailed root causes of reported improper payments and on developing plans to mitigate them in the future.

Expand the use of data analytics at both Department Headquarters and payment reporting sites to better identify potential improper payments and the root causes for improper payments, especially as expenditures will increase due to IIJA, IRA, and the CHIPS Act.

Expand the use of data analytics at both Department Headquarters and payment reporting sites to better identify potential improper payments and the root causes for improper payments, especially as expenditures will increase due to IIJA, IRA, and the CHIPS Act.

We recommend that the FWS address the questioned costs related to unfunded retirement and retiree health totaling $386,763 (Federal share) in consultation with appropriate U.S. Department of the Interior offices to determine if the costs are allowable pursuant to Federal regulations and award terms and conditions.

We recommend that the Massachusetts Department of Health and Human Services remediate the three security control findings OIG identified.