The Labor Department’s inspector general is looking at $204 million spent to modernize the underlying technology for state ...

Federal improper payments hit $186 billion in fiscal year 2025, with Medicare, Medicaid and tax credits accounting for the ...

The federal government spent a shocking $186 billion on "improper payments" in the last fiscal year, marking an increase in ...

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 ...

That fiscal year 2025 improper payment number is up by $24 billion from the previous fiscal year, even as the Trump ...

The improper payment rate for fiscal year 2024 was 3.97%. The last time that number dipped below 4% was in 2013. The Biden White House is touting reductions in agencies’ improper payments, as the ...

(NEXSTAR) – The Social Security Administration (SSA) is wrestling with a “record-breaking backlog” of cases that has led to roughly $1.1 billion in improper payments, according to a new report by the ...

The Internal Revenue Service has not yet satisfied the goal of the Payment Integrity Information Act to reduce improper payment rates to less than 10%, according to a new report. Processing Content ...

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, ...

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 ...