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GAO-01-294R 1 (2000-12-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaalnq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I Accountability * Integrity * Reliability United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 December 22, 2000 The Honorable John R. Kasich Chairman, Committee on the Budget House of Representatives The Honorable John E. Sununu House of Representatives Subject: Third Party Payments: Survey on Use and Related Internal Controls by Government Entities This letter summarizes the information we provided during a December 12, 2000, briefing to staff from the Budget Committee and from Representative Sununu's office. In your May 17, 2000, letter to the Comptroller General, you, as Chairman of the Committee on Budget and Chairman of the Housing and Infrastructure Task Force' respectively, had asked us to conduct a survey on the use of third party payment instruments by government entities. Third party payments represent blank-form financial instruments that enable government employees to directly pay authorized mission-specific, mission-related, and/or administrative expenses when other forms of payment, such as traditional government check, electronic funds transfer, or government credit card, are not feasible or possible. Your request for the survey followed ajoint hearing before the Committee and the Housing and Infrastructure Task Force into abuses and mismanagement of a third party payment system used by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).2 As agreed with your office, the objectives of the survey were to identify, for fiscal years 1997, 1998, and 1999: * Which government entities used third party payment instruments. * The number of third party payment instruments issued. * The total dollar value of third party payment instruments issued. * The purposes for which the third party payment instruments were issued. 1 At the time of the joint request for the survey, Representative Sununu was the Chairman of the Committee on Budget's Housing and Infrastructure Task Force. On September 13, 2000, the Task Force's term of operation ended. 2Separately, you requested that GAO conduct a preliminary review of NTSB internal controls and compliance with applicable laws and regulations to identify areas that may be vulnerable to fraud, waste, and abuse. Work on that request is underway. GAO-01-294R Survey on Third Party Payment Usage

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