Although DHS met all the reporting requirements of Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Act of 2010, it did not meet its annual reduction targets established for each high-risk program as required by OMB and therefore did not fully comply with the law, said an IG report.
Among other requirements under that law, an agency must conduct risk assessments and report and publish the results of selected program testing in its annual financial report. It must also achieve and report improper payment rates of less than 10 percent for each program.
Although the department remained committed to reducing its improper payments, it did not meet the FY 2015 reduction target rates for eight of the 15 programs deemed to be susceptible to improper payments, the report said.
In addition, DHS “did not properly perform oversight of the components’ improper payment testing and reporting,” it said.
It said management concurred with its recommendations to address those issues.
