Read the post Federal Payment Errors, Known As Improper Payments, Are A Continuing Concern March 29, 2023 The federal government reported an estimated $247 billion in payment errors during the most recently...
Read the post Improper Payments on the Rise March 04, 2020 Increasingly, the federal government is making payments it shouldn’t. Improper payments are when the...
Read the post Our Innovation Lab: Building a Sandbox for Audit Tech October 29, 2019 Note: This blog was updated to clarify that the prediction of more than a trillion dollars in...
Read the post Did You Know the Government Gets Audited, Too? March 28, 2019 Tax season has many people diligently filing their returns to avoid being audited. While the federal...
Read the post GAO’s 2019 High-Risk List Update March 06, 2019 Today we released our 2019 High Risk List, which includes 35 areas that we consider to be at high...
Read the post Data Challenges Contribute to Billions in Medicaid Improper Payments (podcast) March 02, 2017 Federal Medicaid administrators rely on state-reported data to help with oversight activities, such...
Read the post When the Federal Government Makes Improper Payments (podcast) July 18, 2016 Federal government agencies made an estimated $137 billion in improper payments in fiscal year 2015...
Read the post Big Data 101: Using Large-Scale Data Mining to Find Fraud March 10, 2015 You may have heard the term “big data” or “data mining,” but what do those terms mean? Today’s...