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Federal Election Commission OIG

Report # OIG-2025-R1: Results of Pandemic Benefits Review

The Federal Election Commission (FEC) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) initiated a proactive review in January 2025 to identify fraud, waste, or abuse of pandemic relief benefits that may have impacted agency employees.

Full Details: Oversight.gov Report Page

Department of Labor OIG

The Employment and Training Administration Needs to Improve Oversight of Grants Awarded in Texas

Full Details: Oversight.gov Report Page

Audit | 6/10/2026

001 - Open

Develop and implement controls to ensure more efficient use of statutory grant funds, which should include performing data analytics on grant spending and performance data.

002 - Open

Establish and implement procedures to collect and analyze detailed financial data on career services expenditures, which should include identifying the reason for the growth in career services.

003 - Open

Develop and implement controls to ensure ETA leadership and other stakeholders are aware of the complete administrative costs—including those of workforce entities currently exempt from reporting administrative costs—incurred by the WIOA statutory grant programs.

004 - Open

Develop guidance for grant recipients and subrecipients to clarify how to determine if an expenditure materially increases the value or useful life of a capital asset.

005 - Open

Establish a dollar threshold for construction projects over which grant recipients need to obtain approval from ETA.

006 - Open

Remedy the $998,253 in questioned costs associated with construction.

007 - Open

Remedy the $23,718 in questioned costs due to not reconciling the provisional rate with the final indirect cost rate.

008 - Open

Remedy the $14,581 in questioned costs associated with the Texas State Board director’s salary expense charged directly to the statutory grant programs.

009 - Open

Develop guidance that clarifies what documentation is required to support individualized career services provided to participants by grant recipients and subrecipients.

010 - Open

Ensure ETA officials responsible for monitoring grant recipients enforce the documentation requirements in their grant agreements.

Department of Labor OIG

ETA Needs to Improve Its Oversight of States' Efforts to Identify UI Fraud Using Federal Prisoners' Social Security Numbers

Full Details: Oversight.gov Report Page

Audit | 6/10/2026

Department of Labor OIG

Alert Memorandum: Additional Findings Regarding the Recovery of Significant Unemployment Insurance Holdings Escheated by Financial Institution 1

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Department of Education OIG

Puerto Rico Department of Education’s Use of ARP ESSER Funds to Measure Student Academic Progress

Congress passed three coronavirus relief acts within a 1-year period that provided more than $275 billion for an Education Stabilization Fund to prevent, prepare for, and respond to the coronavirus, including $189.5 billion for the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER). The American Rescue Plan Act (ARP) provided $122 billion for ESSER to help State educational agencies (SEA) and local educational agencies (LEA) safely reopen and sustain the safe operation of schools and address the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on students. Ensuring that ARP ESSER funds are used...

Full Details: Oversight.gov Report Page

Inspection / Evaluation | 3/17/2026

Department of Labor OIG

Reclaiming 'Forgotten' Fraudulent Pandemic Unemployment Funds Frozen by Banks

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Department of Labor OIG

Alert Memorandum: The Employment and Training Administration Needs to Ensure State Workforce Agencies Take Action to Recover Significant Unemployment Insurance Holdings Still Held by Financial Institution 2's Prepaid Card Program

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Department of Labor OIG

Alert Memorandum: The Employment and Training Administration Needs to Ensure State Workforce Agencies Take Action to Recover Significant Unemployment Insurance Holdings Still Held by Financial Institution 1’s Prepaid Card Program

Full Details: Oversight.gov Report Page

Department of Labor OIG

COVID-19 Minimally Affected the Jobs for Veterans State Grants Program Amid Weaknesses in Eligibility Validation Practices January 22, 2026

Full Details: Oversight.gov Report Page

Audit | 1/22/2026

Department of Labor OIG

COVID-19: The Employment and Training Administration Needs to Improve Oversight of Grants Awarded in New York

Full Details: Oversight.gov Report Page

Audit | 9/26/2025

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Report # OIG-2025-R1: Results of Pandemic Benefits Review

The Employment and Training Administration Needs to Improve Oversight of Grants Awarded in Texas

ETA Needs to Improve Its Oversight of States' Efforts to Identify UI Fraud Using Federal Prisoners' Social Security Numbers

Alert Memorandum: Additional Findings Regarding the Recovery of Significant Unemployment Insurance Holdings Escheated by Financial Institution 1

Puerto Rico Department of Education’s Use of ARP ESSER Funds to Measure Student Academic Progress

Reclaiming 'Forgotten' Fraudulent Pandemic Unemployment Funds Frozen by Banks

Alert Memorandum: The Employment and Training Administration Needs to Ensure State Workforce Agencies Take Action to Recover Significant Unemployment Insurance Holdings Still Held by Financial Institution 2's Prepaid Card Program

Alert Memorandum: The Employment and Training Administration Needs to Ensure State Workforce Agencies Take Action to Recover Significant Unemployment Insurance Holdings Still Held by Financial Institution 1’s Prepaid Card Program

COVID-19 Minimally Affected the Jobs for Veterans State Grants Program Amid Weaknesses in Eligibility Validation Practices January 22, 2026

COVID-19: The Employment and Training Administration Needs to Improve Oversight of Grants Awarded in New York

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