Improper payments
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The Association of Government Accountants recently released recommendations on how federal agencies can cut improper payments as a way to cut costs.
November 28, 2011 -
The White House says federal agencies stopped nearly $18 billion in improper payments in fiscal 2011. Danny Werfel, controller at OMB, explained how agencies did it.
November 16, 2011 -
Most of the fiscal 2011 reductions came from the departments of Education, Agriculture and Health and Human Services. The administration also announced new steps aimed at improving how agencies use suspension and debarment to deal with unreliable contractors and grant recipients.
November 15, 2011 -
The bill builds on a series proposals on improper payments, said Linda Springer, former OMB comptroller.
October 26, 2011 -
FEMA has recovered just $3 million of $643 million in potentially improper disaster relief aid since Hurricane Katrina. But its attempts to recoup the money are setting off one senator and threatening to erupt into a public relations snafu.
October 21, 2011 -
Dan Chenok, a senior fellow with the IBM Center for the Business of Government, joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin and Amy Morris to discuss the The Partnership Fund for Program Integrity Innovation fund and the innovative pilot programs have come out of it.
September 21, 2011 -
States need to help CMS fight fraudulent claims, says Sen. Claire McCaskill.
July 13, 2011 -
The Social Security Administration\'s process for citizens to file claims can create just as much wasteful spending as intentional fraud.
June 15, 2011 -
Your agency needs to know what programs are wasting money so it can fix them. Federal News Radio\'s Francis Rose spoke with former federal procurement policy chief Steve Kelman about his idea to let federal employees vote for programs to be eliminated.
June 06, 2011 -
Obama administration officials told Congress agencies are taking a more aggressive stance than ever in their efforts to cut improper payments. The White House has set a goal of reducing such payments by $50 billion by next fiscal year.
May 26, 2011 -
Ken Donohue is a principal at the Reznick Group, and former Inspector General at HUD. He talks about who did what to get that number down so low.
May 02, 2011 -
Thirteen lawmakers sent a letter to DoD urging greater efforts to eliminate improper payments.
April 29, 2011 -
The chairman of the subcommittee on federal financial management said legislation may be needed to ensure agency accounting procedures are focusing on stopping improper payments. He said progress across the government is good, but more tools are necessary. OMB is testing the Do Not Pay List and plans to launch the full portal in 2012.
April 20, 2011 -
The Office of Management and Budget is helping you make sure your agency\'s gives money only to the right people.
April 15, 2011 -
The agency plans to follow the model credit card companies use to identify potential problems on the front end instead of trying to chase down the money after the fact. CMS accounts for about 46 percent of all improper payments across the government. Overall, OMB wants to reduce the governmentwide error rate to 4.18 percent by 2013.
March 24, 2011