Improper payments

Treasury giving agencies a fighting chance to prevent fraud

David Lebryk, the fiscal assistant secretary at the Treasury Department, said a new machine learning tool is reducing the chance of fraud from paper checks.

Agency Oversight

Agencies continue to struggle with overspending when doling out benefits

Federal Newscast

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

Management

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Government Accountability Office, federal budget oversight

This line of federal improper spending is among the most galling

Agency Oversight

Improper payments reach five-year high in OPM retirement services

Agency Oversight

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

Management

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

Big Data

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

All About Data

Interagency group attacks improper payments from the front end

Ask the CIO

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

Agency Oversight

Pandemic waste is enough to make a person cry

Agency Oversight

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)

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

In today’s Federal Newscast, the White House wants to boost inclusion for transgender people in federal services.

Federal Newscast

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

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

Agency Oversight

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)

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

Agency Oversight

But agencies, amid a surge in public demand to use government services digitally, as well as a rise in improper payments from COVID-19 stimulus programs, face growing pressure to make customer services easier to access, but also more secure.