FEDE U.S. Government Accountability Office · Audits audits
What GAO Found In May 2025, GAO identified three priority recommendations for the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). Since then, OCC has not implemented any of these recommendations. GAO is highlighting the following three areas that warrant timely and focused attention: Analyzing regulations, Financial technology lending, and Addressing blockchain technology risks. Addressing GAO's recommendations in these areas could help OCC assess whether its rules have had their intended effects and inform future rulemaking, provide lenders greater certainty about their compliance with fair lending and other consumer protection laws, and identify and respond to blockchain-related risks in.
FEDE U.S. Government Accountability Office · Audits audits
What GAO Found The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) reported approximately $1 billion in cumulative estimated improper payments—including overpayments, underpayments, and unknown payments—across the Beneficiary Travel (BT) Program from fiscal years 2018 through 2024. During that period, 10 cases of fraud related to the BT Program were adjudicated. The cases involved at least 892 fraudulent claims and totaled at least $219,000. Most of the cases involved beneficiaries that fraudulently reported addresses. VA has implemented data systems partly to mitigate fraud and improper payment risks in the BT Program. Examples include automatically verifying certain claim information before claims ca.
FEDE U.S. Government Accountability Office · Audits audits
What GAO Found Empirical studies assessing the effects of domestic airline mergers generally found that, in the short run, consumers faced higher fares and lower service quality (e.g., on-time performance) on routes where the merger resulted in fewer competitors. For example, based on three studies that used particularly strong methodologies, fares increased between 1 and 8 percent following the merger. Other studies found mergers sometimes led to some improvements in airlines’ efficiencies (e.g., cost reductions), but challenges, such as combining workforces, sometimes reduced or eliminated anticipated gains. GAO’s analyses of airline competition metrics provide a longer-term perspective t.
FEDE U.S. Government Accountability Office · Audits audits
What GAO Found In fiscal year 2025 FraudNet processed over 9,350 allegations and referred about 3,100 of these to various organizations for further inquiry. FraudNet also conducted over 900 queries of commercial and law enforcement databases to assist GAO audits and investigations. FraudNet Processed over 9,350 Allegations In FY 2025, FraudNet processed over 9,350 allegations received from the public, as well as government employees and contractors. Of these, FraudNet referred about 3,100 to other entities for potential action, including investigation. FraudNet referred allegations to over 60 entities, including the Offices of the Inspector General (OIG) at the Departments of Agriculture, D.
FEDE Office of the Federal Register / National Archives and Records Administration · Rulemaking audits
Federal Communications Commission | Proposed Rule | In this document, the Wireline Competition Bureau (WCB) and the Office of Economics and Analytics (OEA) of the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) seek comment on the contours and specific requirements of the proposed 2026 Mandatory Data Collection for incarcerated people's communications services (IPCS). Consistent with the Commission's direction, in this document, we seek comment on proposals to modify the Commission's previous data collection to obtain data and information necessary for the Commission to set permanent rate caps for audio and video ICPS and, to the extent practicable, lessen the reporting burdens on ICPS provi.
FEDE U.S. Government Accountability Office · Audits audits
What GAO Found In May 2025, GAO identified nine priority recommendations for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Since then, HUD has not implemented these recommendations. In June 2026, GAO identified an additional two priority recommendations and removed the priority designation from one recommendation, bringing the total to 10. GAO is highlighting the following two areas that warrant timely and focused attention: Reducing fraud and fragmentation in federal disaster recovery and Improving financing and availability of manufactured housing. By addressing GAO's recommendations in these areas, HUD could improve service delivery to disaster survivors and communities, improve.
FEDE U.S. Government Accountability Office · Audits audits
What GAO Found In May 2025, GAO identified 17 priority recommendations for the Small Business Administration (SBA). Since then, SBA has implemented three of those recommendations, bringing the total to 14. GAO is highlighting the following two areas that warrant timely and focused attention: Improving oversight of COVID-19 pandemic programs Addressing cybersecurity and IT management challenges Addressing GAO's recommendations in these areas would help SBA more strategically manage program fraud risks and respond to cybersecurity and IT management risks. Taking action to implement all of GAO's open priority recommendations would help enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of operations acr.
FEDE Office of the Federal Register / National Archives and Records Administration · Rulemaking audits
Interior Department, Safety and Environmental Enforcement Bureau | Rule | The Department of the Interior (DOI or Department), through the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), is incorporating by reference a collection of production measurement industry standards and safety industry standards into its regulations governing oil, gas, and sulfur operations on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). Incorporation of these documents by reference will provide industry with up-to-date standards for measuring oil and gas production volumes and enhancing safety. Compliance with these standards will reduce uncertainty in the measurement of oil and gas production and update the minimum st.
FEDE Office of the Federal Register / National Archives and Records Administration · Rulemaking audits
National Credit Union Administration | Rule | The NCUA Board is adopting an interim final rule to clarify federal credit unions' (FCUs) power to charge non-interest charges and fees includes the power to assess, collect, impose, levy, receive, reserve, take, or otherwise obtain non-interest charges and fees, including interchange fees from credit and debit card operations. Further, the interim final rule explains that FCUs may charge non- interest charges or fees, even when such charges and fees are set by or in consultation with third parties. NCUA invites public comments on this interim final rule.
FEDE U.S. Government Accountability Office · Audits audits
What GAO Found In August 2025, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)’s largest immigration detention facility to date (known as Camp East Montana) opened on U.S. Army Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas. GAO found that the Army—which awarded and administered the $1.3 billion facility contract—and ICE expedited the award and construction schedule for the facility. This negatively affected their planning and acquisition. Army and ICE officials indicated that the expedited time frames directed by senior leadership dictated several decisions related to their acquisition approach, such as using a contracting vehicle not previously used for detention services. They also selected a contractor th.
DOC Department of Commerce · Enforcement enforcement
As a result of the determinations by the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) and the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) finding that revocation of the antidumping duty (AD) orders on prestressed concrete steel wire strand (PC strand) from Brazil, India, Japan, Mexico, the Republic of Korea (Korea), and Thailand and the countervailing duty (CVD) order on PC strand from India would likely lead to the continuation or recurrence of dumping, countervailable subsidies, and material injury to an industry in the United States, Commerce is publishing a notice of continuation of these AD and CVD orders.
CABI U.S. Government Accountability Office · Audits audits
What GAO Found Stakeholders and available literature identified occupation, culture, and personal life stressors that may negatively affect the mental health of law enforcement officers in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Stressors that Department of Homeland Security Law Enforcement Officers May Face Selected law enforcement agencies—U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA)—reported that at least 99 suicide-related deaths occurred in fiscal years 2016 through 2025. During this period, CBP reported 81 of these deaths and had an average suicide rate of 17.6, which varied annually c.
