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Lawmakers want a closer look at how agencies address improper payments

Top lawmakers on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee are calling on a government watchdog to take a closer look at agencies addressing improper pay

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Fiscal Service using death data to reduce improper payments

Agency Oversight

Lawmakers tee up federal fraud scorecard to measure agency programs

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

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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

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Management

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

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

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

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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)

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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)

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

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Fake invoices cost complicit contractor $50M

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

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Big Data

NSF develops predictive model to flag improper payments in grants

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