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As of April 29, 2024, there are 5085 open recommendations that still need to be addressed. 418 of these are priority recommendations, those that we believe warrant priority attention. Learn more about our priority designation on our Recommendations page.

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Economic Development: Additional Training Could Help Small Lenders Implement Technology

GAO-24-106226
Michael Clements
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1 Open Recommendations
Agency Recommendation Status
Department of the Treasury The Secretary of the Treasury should ensure that the Director of the CDFI Fund develops training or other materials for improving CDFIs' technology capacity. These resources should address the specific capacity limitations of and challenges faced by CDFIs, particularly smaller institutions. (Recommendation 1)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.

401(k) Retirement Plans: Department of Labor Should Update Guidance on Target Date Funds

GAO-24-105364
Tranchau (Kris) T. Nguyen
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2 Open Recommendations
Agency Recommendation Status
Department of Labor The Secretary of Labor should ensure that the Assistant Secretary of the Employee Benefits Security Administration updates the 2013 guidance for plan sponsors, "Target Date Retirement Funds—Tips for ERISA Plan Fiduciaries," to provide information that reflects recent TDF developments. This should include the use of collective investment trusts and differences between "to" and "through" TDF glide paths. (Recommendation 1)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
Department of Labor The Secretary of Labor should ensure that the Assistant Secretary of the Employee Benefits Security Administration, in consultation with the SEC and OCC as appropriate, updates the 2010 guidance for plan participants, "Investor Bulletin: Target Date Retirement Funds," to provide information that reflects recent TDF developments. This should include the use of collective investment trusts. (Recommendation 2)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.

Maternal and Infant Health: HHS Should Strengthen Processes for Measuring Program Performance

GAO-24-106605
Mary Denigan-Macauley
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2 Open Recommendations
Agency Recommendation Status
Health Resources and Services Administration The Administrator of HRSA should implement a documented process to review Healthy Start performance measures (including their definitions, associated data collection forms, and data dictionary), before a grant period begins, to ensure they are clear and allow for the collection of reliable data. (Recommendation 1)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
Health Resources and Services Administration The Administrator of HRSA should implement a documented process for program officials to coordinate the selection of performance measures across its related programs—Healthy Start; the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting; and the Title V Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant. (Recommendation 2)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.

Bureau of Indian Education: Improved Oversight of Schools' COVID-19 Spending is Needed

GAO-24-105451
Melissa Emrey-Arras
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4 Open Recommendations
Agency Recommendation Status
Bureau of Indian Education The Director of BIE should establish controls to ensure that staff consistently follow agency standard procedures when schools and other BIE grantees do not submit timely single audit reports. (Recommendation 1)
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BIE agreed with this recommendation. The agency plans to review controls to ensure staff consistently follow agency standard procedures when BIE grantees do not submit single audit reports in a timely way. We will monitor the agency's efforts to implement this recommendation.
Bureau of Indian Education The Director of BIE should establish controls to ensure staff document their monitoring of high-risk schools' COVID spending and consistently report whether schools followed agency requirements for using these funds. (Recommendation 2)
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BIE agreed with this recommendation and stated that it began taking steps to address it. Specifically, BIE is updating the school monitoring checklist and initiating the process to revise the monitoring handbook to reflect COVID spending. BIE officials said they plan to take additional steps-such as informing staff of these changes and reporting to schools the results of monitoring COVID spending-and they anticipate implementing this recommendation by August 2024. We are encouraged by these initial steps and will monitor the agency's progress in completing them.
Bureau of Indian Education The Director of BIE should update its strategic workforce plan to build its capacity to conduct all annual fiscal reviews of schools that are designated as high risk, as required by its policy. (Recommendation 3)
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BIE agreed with this recommendation and identified actions it has begun taking to address it. For example, BIE is undertaking efforts to research, draft and implement a comprehensive Strategic Workforce Plan that will include its fiscal workforce review. They expect to complete the Plan by September 2025. We will monitor BIE's actions to complete this effort.
Bureau of Indian Education The Director of BIE should work with BIA to establish controls to ensure that BIE staff responsible for monitoring purchase card activity at BIE-operated schools consistently use Interior's required monitoring tool and procedures. (Recommendation 4)
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BIE agreed with this recommendation and stated that BIA's Office of the Chief Financial Officer, with BIE staff input, is implementing significant revisions to the Purchase Card Program Policies. The revised policies require an online monthly statement review and approval process. The on-line system provides reports for monitoring and oversight of purchase card activity. As BIA improves these policies, BIE will ensure its continued compliance with Interior and BIA policies. We will monitor BIE's efforts to address this recommendation.

Veterans Health Care: Improvements Needed in Patient Tracking for Non-Biological Implantable Medical Devices

GAO-24-106621
Sharon M. Silas
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2 Open Recommendations
Agency Recommendation Status
Veterans Health Administration The Under Secretary of Health should ensure VHA includes requirements in its policies that non-biological orthopedic implantable medical devices be effectively tracked to the patient level and ensure that VHA national-level offices have access to the information from the tracking systems for oversight. (Recommendation 1)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
Veterans Health Administration The Under Secretary of Health should undertake an assessment across all clinical specialties to identify where other gaps exist in its ability to effectively track non-biological implantable medical devices to individual patients and take actions to address any identified gaps. Such actions should include ensuring appropriate policies are in place, requiring the use of data systems for tracking, and ensuring that VHA national-level officials have access to the information from the tracking systems for oversight. Actions may also include identifying one program office with ultimate responsibility for implantable medical device oversight at the national level, which could be one of the national offices such as NCPS or an interdisciplinary team such as VHA's Biological Implant Tracking Integrated Project Team. (Recommendation 2)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.

Military Readiness: Comprehensive Approach Needed to Address Service Member Fatigue and Manage Related Efforts

GAO-24-105917
Diana Maurer
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9 Open Recommendations
Agency Recommendation Status
Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness conducts an assessment of DOD's oversight structure for fatigue-related efforts. This assessment should identify and delegate authority to an office with sufficient authority, sufficient staffing and resources, and committed leadership to act as a focal point for and oversee all DOD-wide fatigue-related efforts. (Recommendation 1)
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We will update the status of this recommendation when DOD provides its 180-day letter (expected in fall 2024).
Department of the Air Force The Secretary of the Air Force should assign leadership responsible for DOD component head responsibilities related to fatigue listed in DOD Instruction 1010.10. (Recommendation 2)
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We will update the status of this recommendation when DOD provides its 180-day letter (expected in fall 2024).
Department of the Army The Secretary of the Army should assign leadership responsible for DOD component head responsibilities related to fatigue listed in DOD Instruction 1010.10. (Recommendation 3)
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We will update the status of this recommendation when DOD provides its 180-day letter (expected in fall 2024).
Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should assign Navy leadership responsible for DOD component head responsibilities related to fatigue listed in DOD Instruction 1010.10. (Recommendation 4)
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We will update the status of this recommendation when DOD provides its 180-day letter (expected in fall 2024).
Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should assign Marine Corps leadership responsible for DOD component head responsibilities related to fatigue listed in DOD Instruction 1010.10. (Recommendation 5)
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We will update the status of this recommendation when DOD provides its 180-day letter (expected in fall 2024).
Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure the office identified above to oversee DOD-wide fatigue-related efforts creates and maintains a comprehensive list of all fatigue-related research projects. (Recommendation 6)
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We will update the status of this recommendation when DOD provides its 180-day letter (expected in fall 2024).
Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure the office identified above to oversee DOD-wide fatigue-related efforts establishes a cross-domain working group dedicated to sharing and communicating fatigue research and related information department-wide. (Recommendation 8)
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We will update the status of this recommendation when DOD provides its 180-day letter (expected in fall 2024).
Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness (1) establishes well-defined time frames for conducting follow-on actions, coordinating with all stakeholders, and identifying key officials responsible for implementing the recommendations of the 2021 DOD study on sleep deprivation and readiness; or (2) documents the reasons that implementing the study's recommendations is not appropriate. (Recommendation 9)
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We will update the status of this recommendation when DOD provides its 180-day letter (expected in fall 2024).
Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure the office identified above to oversee DOD-wide fatigue-related efforts uses the comprehensive list of all fatigue-related research projects to compare fatigue-related research to reduce fragmentation among the initiatives. (Recommendation 7)
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We will update the status of this recommendation when DOD provides its 180-day letter (expected in fall 2024).
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