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Unemployment Insurance: Data Indicate Substantial Levels of Fraud during the Pandemic; DOL Should Implement an Antifraud Strategy
GAO-23-105523
Jan 23, 2023
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1 Open Recommendations
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Department of Labor The Secretary of Labor should design and implement an antifraud strategy for UI based on a fraud risk profile consistent with leading practices as provided in the Fraud Risk Framework. (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.

Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act: Additional Steps Needed to Help States Collect Complete Enrollment Information
GAO-23-104830
Nov 16, 2022
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2 Open Recommendations
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Department of Labor The Secretary of Labor should work with the Secretary of Education to determine how to better assist WIOA core programs in collecting complete information on co-enrollment, for example, by providing additional information or technical assistance to help states better share information on participants across programs. (Recommendation 1)
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The Department of Labor (DOL) agreed with this recommendation. DOL stated that it will continue to partner with Education to emphasize the importance of collecting complete and accurate co-enrollment information and provide additional support to states. We will monitor the progress of these efforts.
Department of Education The Secretary of Education should work with the Secretary of Labor to determine how to better assist WIOA core programs in collecting complete information on co-enrollment, for example, by providing additional information or technical assistance to help states better share information on participants across programs. (Recommendation 2)
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The Department of Education agreed with this recommendation. Education said that as part of its continued partnership to promote effective WIOA implementation, it will work with the Department of Labor to determine how to better assist states in ensuring the accuracy and completeness of co-enrollment data that states report to the Department. We will monitor the progress of these efforts.

K-12 Education: Education Should Assess Its Efforts to Address Teacher Shortages
GAO-23-105180
Oct 27, 2022
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Department of Education The Secretary of Education should build on the department's efforts to raise public awareness about the value of teachers by developing and including in its Elevating Teachers strategy time frames, milestones, and performance measures to gauge results. (Recommendation 1)
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Education neither agreed nor disagreed with this recommendation. We will monitor the agency's progress to address this recommendation.
Department of Education The Secretary of Education should direct Federal Student Aid and the Offices of Elementary and Secondary Education and Special Education and Rehabilitative Services to collect resources that address the key challenges contributing to teacher shortages, and share those resources with states and school districts in an easily accessible manner to help them address specific recruitment and retention challenges. (Recommendation 2)
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Education neither agreed nor disagreed with this recommendation. We will monitor the agency's progress to address this recommendation.

Military Spouse Employment: DOD Should Continue Assessing State Licensing Practices and Increase Awareness of Resources
GAO-21-193
Jan 27, 2021
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2 Open Recommendations
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Military Community and Family Policy work with the Defense State Liaison Office to ensure continued assessment and reporting on each state's progress towards implementing best practices for facilitating licensure portability for military spouses, and explore options for assessing whether states' actions are improving spouses' experiences with transferring licenses. (Recommendation 1)
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DOD agreed with this recommendation. The agency highlighted several strategies it uses to support states progress towards implementing best practices for facilitating licensure portability for military spouses. Specifically, DOD stated that it relays best practices to policymakers, publicizes licensure improvement successes, and coordinates with the military services regarding standardized assessment and reporting processes. Additionally, the Defense State Liaison Office (DSLO) has worked with the Military Departments to coordinate feedback to states on progress made on licensure laws, practices and approval of compacts. DSLO also contracted for research to assess state licensing board support of military spouses in six occupations across all 50 states. DOD said that the results of this evaluation will provide DSLO feedback on the experience of obtaining a license as a military spouse. While these are positive steps, we believe it is also important that DOD continue to provide states with periodic formal assessments that document the areas in which states can improve licensure portability for spouses, and explore options for examining whether states' actions are improving spouses' experiences transferring licenses. This would help DOD identify additional actions states could consider to help military spouses transfer their licenses and improve their employment opportunities.
Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Military Community and Family Policy, in coordination with the Secretaries of the military services and external stakeholders, establish strategies for sharing information on their outreach approaches to raise awareness of employment resources among military spouses. (Recommendation 2)
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DOD agreed with this recommendation. The agency noted that it holds bi-monthly meetings with spouse employment personnel at military services headquarters, and that it has implemented a quarterly meeting with the services to share information on outreach approaches and raise awareness of employment resources for military spouses. DOD stated that it has also added an agenda element to its quarterly Spouse Ambassador Network meetings to share best practices with external stakeholders. We will close this recommendation when DOD shares further examples and documentation that these actions are taking place on an on-going basis.
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