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[DHS-OIG Peer Review 2009: System Review Report]
This review, conducted by the Office of Inspector General at the U.S Department of Labor, is meant to evaluate the Office of Inspector General at the Department of Homeland Security. It also includes the response of DHS. From the document: "We have reviewed the system of quality control for the audit organizations of the Department of Homeland Security, Office of Inspector General (DHS-OIG) in effect for the year ended September 30, 2008. A system of quality control encompasses DHS- OIG's organizational structure and the policies adopted and procedures established to provide it with reasonable assurance of conforming with Government Auditing Standards. The elements of quality control are described in Government Auditing Standards. DHS-OIG is responsible for designing a system of quality control and complying with' it to provide the DHS-OIG with reasonable assurance of performing and reporting in conformity with applicable professional standards in all material respects. Our responsibilty is to express an opinion on the design of the system of quality control and DHS-OIG's compliance therewith based on our review."
United States. Department of Labor. Office of the Inspector General
2009-06-23
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COVID-19: The Pandemic Highlighted the Need to Strengthen Wage and Hour Division's Enforcement Controls
From the Document: "In January 2020, the Secretary for Health and Human Services declared a nationwide public health emergency in response to COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019]. Since then, millions of Americans contracted COVID-19 and many public schools and child care facilities closed temporarily, leaving parents without child care to work. In response, Congress passed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) to ensure American workers would not be forced to choose between their paychecks and the public health measures needed to combat the virus. Wage and Hour Division (WHD) was responsible for implementing and enforcing the new law, while also making critical operational decisions during the COVID-19 pandemic. As part of the OIG [Office of the Inspector General]'s Pandemic Oversight Response Plan, this report presents the results of our audit of the WHD's enforcement of the paid leave provisions of the FFCRA."
United States. Department of Labor. Office of the Inspector General
2021-09-30
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COVID-19: Delays in Providing Disaster Relief Jeopardize $366 Million Disaster Worker Grant Program
From the Document: "On March 27, 2020, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act stimulus bill was passed by the 116th U.S. Congress. The CARES Act provided additional funding in the amount of $345 million to the Department of Labor (DOL) Employment and Training Administration (ETA) under Division B, Title VIII. This audit focused on funds allocated to the Disaster National Dislocated Worker Grants (DWG) reserve. From April to August 2020, ETA awarded 57 grants totaling $366 million. ETA used $248 million provided under the CARES Act, along with $118 million from ETA's regular National Dislocated Workers reserve funds for training and employment services and other necessary expenses directly related to the consequences of the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic. Prior Office of Inspector General audits have raised concerns about ETA's grant not achieving performance goals and ETA needing to provide better oversight of DWGs. [...] Lopez [The Lopez Group, LLP] made four recommendations to ETA to provide technical assistance to the states regarding grantee performance, provide close monitoring to ensure performance, establish written timelines for disaster relief action, and enforce existing procedures. ETA generally agreed with these recommendations and stated it has already taken corrective action."
United States. Department of Labor. Office of the Inspector General
2022-01-28
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CARES Act: Initial Areas of Concern Regarding Implementation of Unemployment Insurance Provisions
From the Document: "This advisory report presents the Office of Inspector General's (OIG) initial areas of concern the Department of Labor (DOL) and the states should consider given the implementation of the unemployment insurance (UI) provisions included in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act of 2020. UI is a joint federal-state program with DOL's Employment and Training Administration (ETA) responsible for providing state oversight. The concerns presented in this report represent years of oversight work relating to DOL's UI program, including the use of prior stimulus funds and the Department's response to past natural disasters."
United States. Department of Labor. Office of the Inspector General
2020-04-21
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Alert Memorandum: The Pandemic Unemployment Assistance Program Needs Proactive Measures to Detect and Prevent Improper Payments and Fraud
This is a memorandum from the Office of Inspector General, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to DHS Assistant Secretary of Employment and Training Administration John P. Pallasch dated May 26, 2020. From the Document: "The purpose of this memorandum is to alert you to a concern we identified during our ongoing audit of the Department of Labor's (DOL) response to the Unemployment Insurance (UI) Program's expansion under the CARES Act. The CARES Act's Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) program expanded UI eligibility to individuals who are not typically qualified to receive such benefits. To establish eligibility, the CARES Act requires individuals to selfcertify that they have lost employment income due to a COVID-19 related reason specified within the statute. This self-certification renders the individual eligible to receive payments immediately."
United States. Department of Labor. Office of the Inspector General
2020-05-26
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Alert Memorandum: ETA Needs to Improve Its Plans for Providing Administrative, Financial Management, and Audit Requirements Relief to Grant Recipients Impacted by the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)
From the Document: "On March 19, 2020, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued Memorandum M-20-17, 'Administrative Relief for Recipients and Applicants of Federal Financial Assistance Directly Impacted by the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) due to Loss of Operations,' to provide administrative relief exceptions for grant recipients impacted by COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019]. These exceptions provided short-term relief for administrative, financial management, and audit requirements under 2 CFR [Code of Federal Regulations] 200, 'Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards'. The exceptions are time limited and will be reassessed by OMB within 90 days of the memorandum, or June 17, 2020."
United States. Department of Labor. Office of the Inspector General
Lewis, Elliot P.
2020-05-19
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COVID-19: Increased Worksite Complaints and Reduced OSHA Inspections Leave U.S. Workers' Safety at Increased Risk
From the Document: "The COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic has raised specific concerns about the health and safety of workers and the measures OSHA [Occupational Safety and Health Administration] has taken to ensure employers are mitigating employees' risk of exposure to the virus at workplaces. Due to the pandemic, OSHA has received a surge of complaints in a matter of months, while garnering the attention of Congress, labor unions, and media with requests to act swiftly on behalf of the 130 million workers at more than 8 million worksites nationwide whom OSHA is responsible for protecting. [...] We conducted this audit to answer the following question: 'What plans and guidance has OSHA developed to address challenges created by COVID-19, and to what extent have these challenges affected OSHA's ability to protect the safety of workers and its workforce?' To answer this question, we reviewed guidance, public laws, and state standards; conducted interviews; and researched complaint and enforcement data."
United States. Department of Labor. Office of the Inspector General
2021-02-25
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Alert Memorandum: The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) Needs to Ensure State Workforce Agencies (SWA) Implement Effective Unemployment Insurance Program Fraud Controls for High Risk Areas
From the Document: "The purpose of this memorandum is to alert you to a concern the Office of Inspector General (OIG) identified during our ongoing audit of the Department of Labor's (DOL) response to the Unemployment Insurance (UI) Program's expansion under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act). The information provided herein was developed in collaboration with the OIG's Office of Investigations. We identified more than $5.4 billion of potentially fraudulent UI benefits paid to individuals with social security numbers filed in multiple states, to individuals with social security numbers of deceased persons and federal inmates, and to individuals with social security numbers used to file for UI claims with suspicious email accounts. The Department needs to take immediate action and increase its efforts to ensure SWAs implement effective controls to mitigate fraud in these high risk areas. This alert memo only captures a subset of the potential fraudulent UI activities from March 2020 through October 2020, and is the result of our comprehensive data analysis performed. The OIG expects that the actual amount of potential fraud is much larger."
United States. Department of Labor. Office of the Inspector General
2021-02-22
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COVID-19: States Struggled to Implement CARES Act Unemployment Insurance Programs
From the Document: "On March 27, 2020, Congress passed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act with the intent of providing expanded Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits to workers who were unable to work as a direct result of the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic. The expanded UI benefits required the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) to implement major changes to the existing UI system. This audit focused on the Department of Labor's (DOL) and states' implementation of the three key new UI programs that posed the greatest risk for fraud, waste, and abuse: Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA), Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC), and Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC). As of January 2, 2021, federal funding to states for these three UI programs was $392 billion."
United States. Department of Labor. Office of the Inspector General
2021-05-28
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COVID-19: More Can Be Done to Mitigate Risk to Unemployment Compensation Under The CARES Act
From the Document: "This report presents the results of the Office of Inspector General's (OIG) audit of the Employment and Training Administration's (ETA) planning for and initial implementation of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act Unemployment Insurance (UI) programs. On March 27, 2020, Congress passed the CARES Act. The expanded UI benefits under the CARES Act required ETA to implement major changes to the existing system including establishing six new programs -- each with the intent of providing expanded UI benefits to Americans who are unable to work as a direct result of the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic. These expanded UI benefits are estimated to cost $260 billion and are funded by the federal government. The billions of dollars involved have significantly increased the risk for fraud, waste, and abuse in UI programs."
United States. Department of Labor. Office of the Inspector General
2020-08-07
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COVID-19: MSHA Faces Multiple Challenges in Responding to the Pandemic
From the Document: "This report presents the results of the Office of Inspector General's (OIG) audit of the Mine Safety and Health Administration's response to the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] Pandemic. This audit was part of phase 1 of the OIG's Pandemic Oversight Response Plan. On January 31, 2020, the Secretary of Health and Human Services declared a public health emergency in response to the Coronavirus Disease of 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. As the pandemic spread throughout the United States, industries not otherwise deemed essential began to temporarily close for business. On March 28, 2020, the Department of Homeland Security labeled mining among 17 critical infrastructure industries that states should consider keeping open to assist in the United States' response to the pandemic. The mining industry is a key resource for our energy and construction industries, so it is important that we keep our miners and MSHA inspectors safe."
United States. Department of Labor. Office of the Inspector General
2020-07-24
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COVID-19: WHD Needs to Closely Monitor the Pandemic Impact on Its Operations
From the Document: "This report presents the results of the Office of Inspector General's (OIG) audit of Wage and Hour Division's (WHD) plan for the implementation, enforcement, and oversight of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA). It also raises key areas of concern with WHD's implementation and enforcement of the FFCRA. Congress passed the FFCRA on March 18, 2020, in response to the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic, to ensure American workers would not be forced to choose between their paychecks and the public health measures needed to combat the virus."
United States. Department of Labor. Office of the Inspector General
2020-08-07
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COVID-19: States Cite Vulnerabilities in Detecting Fraud While Complying with the CARES Act UI Program Self-Certification Requirement
From the Document: "This report presents the results of our audit of the self-certification process for the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act's (CARES Act) Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) program. The audit focused on the processes that state workforce agencies use to determine claimant eligibility and their actions to deter and detect fraud relating to self-certifications. The CARES Act's PUA program expands Unemployment Insurance (UI) eligibility to individuals who are not typically eligible to obtain benefits and creates several programs that temporarily expand unemployment benefits for workers affected by the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic. The CARES Act provides for up to 39 weeks of PUA benefits and requires individuals to self-certify that they lost employment income due to a COVID-19 related reason."
United States. Department of Labor. Office of the Inspector General
2020-10-21
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COVID-19: OWCP Should Continue to Closely Monitor Impact on Claims Processing
From the Document: "On January 31, 2020, the Secretary for Health and Human Services declared a nationwide public health emergency in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. As of June 22, 2020, there have been over 2 million confirmed COVID-19 cases in the United States, and social distancing mandates have caused mass disruption to the economy and peoples' lives in every state. As part of Phase 1 of the OIG's [Office of Inspector General] Pandemic Oversight Response Plan, this report presents the results of our audit of the Office of Workers' Compensation Programs' (OWCP) initial response to the pandemic."
United States. Department of Labor. Office of the Inspector General
2020-07-06
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COVID-19: OSHA Needs to Improve Its Handling of Whistleblower Complaints During the Pandemic
From the Document: "As part of Phase 1 of the OIG's [Office of the Inspector General] Pandemic Oversight Response Plan, we conducted this audit to answer the following question: What impact have COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] whistleblower complaints had on OSHA [Occupational Safety and Health Administration], and how has OSHA addressed COVID-19 whistleblower complaints? To answer this question, we conducted interviews, reviewed internal notifications, and analyzed whistleblower complaint data."
United States. Department of Labor. Office of the Inspector General
2020-08-14
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