Report to Congress: October 1, 2024 through March 31, 2025
We're pleased to present the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee's (PRAC) Semiannual Report to Congress, which highlights our accomplishments between October 1, 2024 and March 31, 2025. It's been five years since the PRAC’s creation, and we, along with our Office of Inspector General (OIG) partners, remain committed to the mission of effectively overseeing more than $5 trillion in federal pandemic relief funds.
As we approach the PRAC's sunset date of September 2025, we also look to the future by encouraging Congress to sustain PRAC’s analytics platform. This good-government initiative has provided deep insights to programs, sophisticated data analytics tools, and innovative oversight models with an unbeatable return on investment for detecting and preventing fraud, waste, and abuse. We believe the time is now to preserve these PRAC innovations and apply these fraud prevention and detection tools to all federal spending.
Read the letter from Michael E. Horowitz, PRAC Chair, in our report and learn about our accomplishments.
Highlights from the report
"We encourage Congress to maintain the valuable fraud-fighting tools of our data analytics center and expand its jurisdiction beyond pandemic relief funds. Without it, the federal government will no longer have an entity capable of proactively conducting cross-program, cross-agency analysis to help prevent improper payments in high-risk programs."
Michael E. Horowitz, PRAC Chair
We published Chapters 3 and 4 of the Blueprint for Enhanced Program Integrity.
This five-chapter research project shares lessons learned and best practices to help strengthen federal programs. Chapter 3 focuses on helping the oversight community and policymakers prevent and detect fraud in emergency and non-emergency programs. Chapter 4 examines the whole-of-government approach—how federal, state, and local governments worked together to oversee the more than $5 trillion in pandemic relief funding.
We issued reports on the impact of pandemic relief programs in two communities.
The reports on two of the six locations we had visited -- Marion County, GA and White Earth Nation Reservation located in Minnesota -- focused on the specific programs and subprograms that provided emergency response funding in each of the locations.
