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OMB — Office of Management and Budget

Agency Oversight

OMB touts progress on improper payments amid anti-fraud push

Agencies say workforce training and data sharing are key to combatting fraud after the governmentwide improper payments rate dipped to 3.97% in fiscal 2024.

Reporter's Notebook

As the Acquisition World Turns: OFPP turns heat up on primes

Commentary

Fraud prevention and equity must go hand-in-hand when modernizing unemployment insurance

Agency Oversight

Lawmakers tee up federal fraud scorecard to measure agency programs

Ask the CIO

New strategy, A-123 update to help reduce improper payments

Management

The Supreme Court strips the SEC of a critical enforcement tool in fraud cases

Benefits

Some feds continue to see fraudulent FSAFEDS deductions

FSAFEDS, Flexible spending accounts

Benefits

Spike in fraud through FSAFEDS prompting new security measures

waste, fraud, abuse, FWA

Commentary

Forging government resilience against fraud, waste and abuse

Department of Treasury

Agency Oversight

Treasury giving agencies a fighting chance to prevent fraud

social seciurity, fraud, AI

Benefits

Social Security IG looks to stop fraud revved up by AI

NerdWallet-Millennial Money-Financial Insecurity Help

Federal Newscast

Fraudster hacks federal auction website, buys truck for a dollar

GSA, General Services Administration

Reporter's Notebook

Acquisitions at GSA, VA kicks fiscal 2024 into high gear

Agency Oversight

Agency Oversight

Did agencies forget how to prevent fraud during pandemic relief?

biometric security, Pandemic, fraud, PRAC

Big Data

'Eye-watering kind of fraud': Improper payments total third of a pandemic unemployment program’s funds

Social Security, SSA, worker, telework, episodic telework

Management

SSA electronic verification service ‘at risk of collapse,’ key backer says

Jason Miller

Federal Report

Fake solicitation highlights growing attacks against federal officials

budget cuts

Budget

Billions in funding, not enough oversight resources, IGs tell Congress

FILE - In this Nov. 20, 2020, file photo a U.S. Department of Homeland Security plaque is displayed a podium as international passengers arrive at Miami international Airport where they are screened by U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Miami. The damned-if-you-pay-damned-if-you-don’t dilemma on ransomware payments has left U.S. officials fumbling about how to respond. While the Biden administration “strongly discourages” paying, it recognizes that failing to pay would be suicidal for some victims. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)

IT Modernization

DHS digital identity tests come as Biden administration looks to tamp down on online fraud

FILE - A worker carries a large parcel at the United States Postal Service sorting and processing facility Nov. 18, 2021, in Boston. Congress would lift onerous budget requirements that have helped push the Postal Service deeply into debt and would require it to continue delivering mail six days per week under bipartisan legislation that approached House approval Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

Pay

USPS tightens online security after fraudsters steal employees' paychecks

Judges wooden gavel resting on a law book in a courtroom conceptual of judgements, crime, punishment, and justice

Federal Newscast

Soldier sentenced to 42 months in federal prison for $3 million PPP loan fraud

Federal Newscast

$7.9 million retrieved as DHS OIG tackles COVID-19 fraud

Department of Housing and Urban Affairs building, Washington, D.C.

Management

HUD emphasizing need to do front-end fraud risk assessments for programs

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