Reports

Special Inspector General for Pandemic Recovery

Audit of the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Process for Its Direct Loan to YRC Worldwide, Inc. Under Section 4003 of the CARES Act

Audit of the U.S. Department of the Treasury’sProcess for Its Direct Loan to YRC Worldwide, Inc.Under Section 4003 of the CARES Act

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Pandemic Response Accountability Committee

FRAUD ALERT FOLLOW-UP: Improved Sharing of Death Records and Use of the Do Not Pay System Would Strengthen Program Integrity and Better Protect the Public

This update expands on our January 2023 Fraud Alert that identified 69,000 questionable Social Security Numbers (SSNs) used to obtain $5.4 billion in potentially fraudulent loans made in the COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program and Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). As detailed in that Fraud Alert, PRAC data scientists, using our Pandemic Analytics Center of Excellence, identified the questionable SSNs after determining that the names, SSNs, and/or dates of birth used in connection with COVID-19 EIDL/PPP applications did not match Social Security Administration’s (SSAs)...

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Department of Justice

Cincinnati man sentenced to one year & one day in prison for pandemic relief fraud

Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration

Additional Actions Are Needed to Reduce Accounts Management Function Inventories to Below Pre‑Pandemic Levels

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Audit | 5/10/2023

1 - Closed

Ensure that all sites understand and begin immediately stamping the ICT received date after correspondence screening is completed, and that individual and business documents are screened with equal importance.

10 - Open

Coordinate with the Information Technology organization to explore adding Taxpayer Relations inventories into the CII, so that all Accounts Management inventory is located in the same inventory management system.

11 - Closed

The Commissioner, Wage and Investment Division, should establish time frames for and a process to measure correspondence screening timeliness at each site.

12 - Closed

The Commissioner, Wage and Investment Division, should rescind the requirement that only the TEs and the CSRs perform correspondencescreening and encourage all sites to use mail clerks, after providing them with adequate training.

13 - Closed

The Commissioner, Wage and Investment Division, should ensure prompt completion of the ICT review to determine if additional scanners will be purchased.

2 - Closed

Discontinue correspondence screening via telework and ensure at all sites that screening must be conducted in the same IRS facility where documents are being scanned by the ICT.

3 - Closed

Identify and address the cause of Accounts Management function employees incorrectly routing cases to other IRS functions and work with other IRS functions to update their Internal Revenue Manuals to make it clear that incorrectly routed documents should be returned to the originating employee.

4 - Closed

We recommended that management take steps to hire as many mail clerks as possible.

5 - Closed

The Commissioner, Wage and Investment Division, should establish goals for each of the Accounts Management function’s inventory types and develop a plan for addressing those goals to ensure a timely return to pre-pandemic inventory levels.

6 - Open

The Commissioner, Wage and Investment, should prioritize funding and implementation of automated processing of Forms 1040-X to increase efficiencies and reduce taxpayer burden.

7 - Closed

The Commissioner, Wage and Investment Division, should implement temporary solutions for the processing of Forms 1040-X to reduce the backlogs, reduce taxpayer burden, and save IRS resources until an automated solution is implemented.

8 - Open

Coordinate with the Information Technology organization to prevent generating transcripts for manual refunds less than $100 and adjust the frequency that some transcripts are generated to help management get through the inventory more efficiently.

9 - Closed

Temporarily relieve employees in the Accounts Management function from having to complete paperwork for barred statutes, so they can focus on eliminating the backlogged inventory and prevent future barred statutes.

Department of Education OIG

Federal Student Aid’s Processes for Waiving Return of Title IV Requirements, Cancelling Borrowers’ Obligation to Repay Direct Loans, and Excluding Pell Grants from Federal Pell Lifetime Usage

FSA had adequate processes for waiving R2T4 requirements, cancelling borrowers’ obligation to repay Direct Loans, and excluding Pell disbursements from Pell lifetime usage for impacted students. FSA also designed adequate processes for schools to report the number and amounts of R2T4 waivers applied.

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Department of Justice

12 KC-Area Residents Indicted for $250,000 Covid Fraud Conspiracy

Department of Justice OIG

Inmate Perceptions of the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ Management of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic

To view the survey, please visit: https://oig.justice.gov/reports/inmate-perceptions-federal-bureau-priso…

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Department of Veterans Affairs OIG

VHA Can Improve Controls Over Its Use of Supplemental Funds

The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act appropriated about $17.2 billion in supplemental funds to the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) to support VA’s efforts to prevent, prepare for, and respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. The OIG conducted this audit to assess the effectiveness of VA’s controls over VHA’s use of these funds.Because VA’s financial management system does not support the direct obligation of supplemental funds for all expenses, staff used expenditure transfers to shift funds between appropriation accounts. Expenditure transfers are documented using...

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Audit | 5/09/2023

01 - Closed

VA’s assistant secretary for management and chief financial officer assess the iFAMS configuration to determine whether integration with the payroll subsystems can be accomplished to resolve some of the payroll-related issues that require the need for expenditure transfers.

01 - Closed

Assess the iFAMS configuration to determine whether integration with the payroll subsystems can be accomplished to resolve some of the payroll-related issues that require the need for expenditure transfers.

02 - Closed

Establish guidance that outlines the type of documentation required to support the amounts identified in the manual journal vouchers when processing expenditure transfers.

03 - Closed

Require medical facility staff have documented authority, through proper delegation, to make purchases.

04 - Closed

Verify that medical facility staff segregate duties so that the same person is not both authorizing and receiving goods and services.

05 - Closed

Make certain the purchase card holder is not the requestor or approver for the purchase.

06 - Closed

Ensure contracting officers representatives know and understand their duties and responsibilities for the certification and payment of invoices.

07 - Closed

Check vendors compliance with contract terms to include the comparison of invoiced amounts with the contract line-item unit costs.esponse to the pandemic and develop appropriate action plans to integrate oversight roles, responsibilities, and clear guidance into the use of supplemental funds.

08 - Closed

Ensure that medical facility staff track the receipt of goods to make certain they are the correct quantity.

09 - Closed

Conduct an assessment of lessons learned from the emergency response to the pandemic and develop appropriate action plans to integrate oversight roles, responsibilities, and clear guidance into the use of supplemental funds.

Department of Justice

Essex County Man Charged in Scheme to Fraudulently Obtain More Than $4 Million from Government Programs

Minnesota Office of the Legislative Auditor

COVID-19-Related Emergency Purchases Performance Audit

We conducted this audit to determine whether state entities complied with significant finance-related legal requirements regarding emergency purchasing. We audited emergency purchases entered into by state entities in response to the COVID-19 pandemic from January 1, 2020, through April 30, 2021, and the expenditures applied against those purchases through December 31, 2021. State entities generally complied with the significant finance-related legal requirements we tested. However, we identified some specific instances of noncompliance related to obtaining and using emergency purchasing...

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Reports

Audit of the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Process for Its Direct Loan to YRC Worldwide, Inc. Under Section 4003 of the CARES Act

FRAUD ALERT FOLLOW-UP: Improved Sharing of Death Records and Use of the Do Not Pay System Would Strengthen Program Integrity and Better Protect the Public

Cincinnati man sentenced to one year & one day in prison for pandemic relief fraud

Additional Actions Are Needed to Reduce Accounts Management Function Inventories to Below Pre‑Pandemic Levels

Federal Student Aid’s Processes for Waiving Return of Title IV Requirements, Cancelling Borrowers’ Obligation to Repay Direct Loans, and Excluding Pell Grants from Federal Pell Lifetime Usage

12 KC-Area Residents Indicted for $250,000 Covid Fraud Conspiracy

Inmate Perceptions of the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ Management of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic

VHA Can Improve Controls Over Its Use of Supplemental Funds

Essex County Man Charged in Scheme to Fraudulently Obtain More Than $4 Million from Government Programs

COVID-19-Related Emergency Purchases Performance Audit

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