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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)

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

Homeland Security officials this year will test the extent to which software can verify the authenticity of an ID based off just a smartphone photo and…

IT Modernization

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)

USPS tightens online security after fraudsters steal employees’ paychecks

Pay

S.Gnatiuk

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

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

Federal Newscast

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

Federal Newscast

GSA

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

Management

House Financial Services Committee member Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer, R-Mo., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 2, 2017, during the committee's hearing hearing on overhauling the nation's financial rules. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

A $28 billion SBA pandemic relief program for restaurants looks to have served up some fraud and sloppy oversight

Federal Newscast

Nearly $3 million in possible COVID fraud tied to DHS employees

Federal Newscast

FILE - Attorney General Merrick Garland, looks at federal prosecutor Kevin Chambers, right, after appointing him to be the Justice Department's chief pandemic fraud prosecutor, during a meeting of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Fraud Enforcement Task Force at the Justice Department, March 10, 2022 in Washington. The U.S. Secret Service recovered $286 million in fraudulently obtained pandemic funds to the Small Business Administration, Friday, Aug. 26. (Kevin Lamarque/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Secret Service recovers $286M in stolen pandemic loans

Workforce

FILE - In this May 14, 2013, photo, the Department of Justice headquarters building in Washington is photographed early in the morning. Twelve people, including three U.S. Army soldiers, are accused in a large-scale gun trafficking ring that prosecutors allege supplied nearly 100 guns to gang members in Chicago. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the indictment on April 1, 2022. (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File)

DOJ indicts 3 for impersonating federal employees in $7.5M phone scam

Federal Newscast

FILE - An advertisement for Bitcoin cryptocurrency is displayed on a street in Hong Kong, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022. Bitcoin prices have surged in recent days, Wednesday, March 2, as investors once again appear to view the volatile cryptocurrency as safe haven for their money in the midst of rising geopolitical tensions. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)

How an interagency team took down terror networks exploiting the pandemic

People

Biden admin. wants more federal employees to qualify for student loan forgiveness

Federal Newscast

Charles Tapp, Department of Veterans Affairs

Veterans Affairs takes on a new scam: pension poaching

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Veterans Affairs

How telehealth became a proven commodity for Medicare recipients

Some 28 million people on Medicare used telehealth in the first year of the pandemic, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.

Technology

Rae Oliver Davis, inspector general at the Department of Housing and Urban Development

Housing and Urban Development IG lays out its new 4-year strategy

Agency Oversight

To ride herd on a federal department, you need a plan. In the case of HUD’s Office of Inspector General, a five-year strategic plan.