Pandemic Response Accountability Committee

Eternal question: What to keep, what to toss out

The Pandemic Response Accountability Committee, by statute, sunsets a year from September 2025, more than five years after onset of the pandemic itself.

Federal Report

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First Look

White House-backed bill to preserve pandemic fraud analytics tools introduced in House

Congress

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Lead pandemic watchdog urges lawmakers to extend COVID anti-fraud tool to all federal spending

Agency Oversight

Pandemic watchdog sees ‘target-rich environment’ for AI to track down fraudsters

All About Data

biometric security, Pandemic, fraud, PRAC

‘Eye-watering kind of fraud’: Improper payments account for third of pandemic unemployment program’s funds

Big Data

Bob Westbrooks, former inspector general and executive director of Pandemic Response Accountability Team

Search for Accountability

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Social Security, SSA, worker, telework, episodic telework

SSA built a system to help combat identity fraud. Backers say it’s ‘at risk of collapse’

Management

Pandemic broke down some, but not all barriers for IGs

The Association of Government Accountants will release its 10th annual survey of inspector generals in the coming months with a focus on the impact of…

Agency Oversight

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

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.

Agency Oversight

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

Agency Oversight

Oversight offices are raising issues with the timeliness and accuracy of the data reported to USAspending.gov.

Pandemic Response Accountability Committee

Eternal question: What to keep, what to toss out

White House-backed bill to preserve pandemic fraud analytics tools introduced in House

Lead pandemic watchdog urges lawmakers to extend COVID anti-fraud tool to all federal spending

Pandemic watchdog sees ‘target-rich environment’ for AI to track down fraudsters

‘Eye-watering kind of fraud’: Improper payments account for third of pandemic unemployment program’s funds

Bob Westbrooks, former inspector general and executive director of Pandemic Response Accountability Team

SSA built a system to help combat identity fraud. Backers say it’s ‘at risk of collapse’

White House $1.6B COVID fraud plan gives federal watchdogs increased staffing

Federal watchdogs still uncovering full scope of fraud in $5T COVID-19 spending

PRAC: Potentially over $5 billion in fraudulent pandemic loans from SBA

How to find data on millions and millions of pandemic federal funding awards

Pandemic broke down some, but not all barriers for IGs

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

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