The Government Accountability Office has found that federal agencies need to improve their estimates of improper payments which totaled $175 billion last fiscal year.
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The Government Accountability Office has disclosed it was not able to give an opinion on the federal government’s fiscal 2015 consolidated financial statement due to several material weaknesses that the agency has identified
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The U.S. Office of Management and Budget wants to establish an integrated framework for governing spending oversight in government agencies, Federal News Radio reported Wednesday. Jason Miller writes the agency will revise
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Debt held by the U.S. public represents 73 percent of gross domestic product, a sharp increase from the 40 percent mark in the 1970s through the 1990s, according to the U.S. comptroller
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The federal government has cut the rate of improper payments by $47 billion over the past three years, going from the 5.4 percent recorded in fiscal year 2009 to 4.3 percent for
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Progress is progress in the Campaign to Cut Waste, according to a White House statement released Tuesday. The administration cut wasteful or improper payments by $17.6 billion in fiscal year 2011, the
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The Treasury Department will be implementing a plan, first expressed by President Obama last year, to reduce the amount of improper payments made by federal agencies. In about three months, the Treasury
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The administration is making a renewed effort at cutting back improper payments, with the Office of Management and Budget launching four new pilot projects aim to stem the tide of wasteful spending.
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In the wake of revelations that the federal government had mistakenly or improperly paid almost $1 billion to deceased people over 10 years, Director Deputy of the Office of Management and Budget
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