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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.

Federal Newscast

Lawmakers want a closer look at how agencies address improper payments

Ask the CIO

Fiscal Service using death data to reduce improper payments

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

Agency Oversight

Treasury giving agencies a fighting chance to prevent fraud

Federal Newscast

Agencies continue to struggle with overspending when doling out benefits

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Management

Uh oh. Finances at these HUD programs are like a house of cards

Government Accountability Office, federal budget oversight

Agency Oversight

This line of federal improper spending is among the most galling

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Agency Oversight

Improper payments reach five-year high in OPM retirement services

OMB Controller

Management

Joint review meetings are OMB’s latest tool to improve program performance

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Big Data

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

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All About Data

Treasury seeks greater data sharing in interagency plan to curb improper payments

Ask the CIO

How agencies can stop the ‘pay and chase’ model for recouping improper payments

Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.)

Agency Oversight

House lawmakers aim to tackle improper payments with better data, IT

Gene Dodaro

Agency Oversight

Pandemic waste is enough to make a person cry

President Joe Biden speaks about status of the country's fight against COVID-19 in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus, Wednesday, March 30, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Federal Newscast

Biden admin. hopes to make government services more inclusive for transgender people

Government Accountability Office Acting Comptroller General Gene Dodaro, testifies before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing on "Tracking the Money: Preventing Waste, Fraud and Abuse of Recovery Act Funding" on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, July 8, 2009, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Agency Oversight

Pandemic relief oversight sheds new light on persistent gaps in federal spending data

FILE - In this March 22, 2013 file photo, the exterior of the Internal Revenue Service building in Washington. As millions of Americans file their income tax returns, their chances of getting audited by the IRS have rarely been so low. The number of people audited by the IRS last year dropped for the sixth straight year, to just over 1 million. The last time so few people were audited was 2004, when the population was significantly smaller. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Agency Oversight

IRS ‘struck a nerve’ with facial recognition, but pieces missing in fight against fraud

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Agency Oversight

With an increase in federal payouts comes an increase in improper payments

FILE - This May 4, 2021, photo shows the Treasury Building in Washington. The U.S. budget deficit hit a record $2.06 trillion through the first eight months of this budget year as coronavirus relief programs drove spending to all-time highs. The shortfall this year is 9.7% higher than the $1.88 trillion deficit run up over the same period a year ago, the Treasury Department said Wednesday, June 9, 2021 in its monthly budget report. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, file)

Big Data

Bureau of the Fiscal Service seeks to issue nearly all payments electronically by 2030

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Federal Newscast

Fake invoices cost complicit contractor $50M

Michael McCord, comptroller, DoD

DoD Reporter's Notebook

Biden's DoD will huddle about how to replace CMO position

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