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What OIG Audited
In FY 2021, improper and unknown federal payments government-wide totaled approximately $281 billion. The Payment Integrity Information Act of 2019 (PIIA) requires Inspectors General to annually determine whether agencies complied with the Act and established requirements for agencies that were deemed noncompliant. The Office of Inspector General (OIG) conducted this audit to determine whether the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) complied with PIIA for FY 2021. As part of this objective, OIG also evaluated USAGM’s efforts to prevent and reduce improper and unknown payments.
What OIG Recommends
OIG concluded that USAGM complied with payment integrity requirements for FY 2021; therefore, OIG is not offering any recommendations. USAGM’s response to a draft of this report is reprinted in its entirety in Appendix B.
What OIG Found
For the FY 2021 reporting period, OIG found that USAGM complied with payment integrity requirements, as presented in Table 1.
Specifically, OIG found that USAGM published on its website the FY 2021 financial statements and accompanying material, which included all applicable payment integrity information. In addition, USAGM conducted program-specific risk assessments and made appropriate conclusions related to the risk assessments. The programs subject to risk assessments during FY 2021 were found to be in compliance with PIAA requirements and are presented in Tables 1 and 2 in the Audit Results section of this report.
With respect to USAGM’s efforts to prevent and reduce improper and unknown payments, OIG did not identify any needed improvements (including improper and unknown payments determination and estimation methodology, as well as actions to improve prevention and reduction).