It’s tempting to want to celebrate the latest improper payment numbers—just announced as being at their lowest level in a decade— as a great success story. And indeed, the administration is ...

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A new GAO report released last week (“Improper Payments: Fiscal Year 2022 Estimates and Opportunities for Improvement”) made brief headlines for finding that, during fiscal year 2022, federal agencies ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reported in 2024 that Medicaid’s improper payment rate over the previous three years was less than 5.1%. A health policy analyst who worked for the White ...

Despite continuing efforts by federal agencies, improper payments remain a government-wide issue. Federal agencies can help strengthen their strategies to prevent improper payments by taking three ...

Improper payments do not necessarily constitute fraud and can include both overpayments and underpayments. (Getty Images/DNY59) The Trump administration has released new estimates on improper payments ...

The federal government disbursed a reported $2.7 trillion in improper payments—amounts that either should not have been paid, were made for the incorrect amount, or otherwise lacked fidelity—over the ...

Improper payments are generating significant public, media and political scrutiny, and they have become a top priority for federal finance executives, who have the ultimate responsibility for ...

"Improper IFR" is a catchall term for preventable instrument flight errors (e.g., descending below minimums, rushing) that frequently lead to fatal accidents, often stemming from pilot mental errors ...

A "record-breaking backlog" of pending actions has led to an estimated $1.1 billion in improper beneficiary payments, according to a new report. Experts say the Social Security Administration needs ...

Improper payments, which put taxpayer dollars at risk, have been a long-term issue for the federal government, but they declined over the past year. However, there is more than meets the eye on this, ...