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GGD-84-74 1 (1984-05-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabnjc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 B-215054 The Honorable Patricia Schroeder Chairwoman, Subcommittee on Civil Service Committee on Post Office and Civil Service House of Representatives Dear Madam Chairwoman: Subject: Executive Agencies' Employee Cash Awards Program for Disclosure of Fraud, Waste, or Mismanagement (GAO/GGD-84-74) As requested by your office, we are reporting the results of our review of the executive agencies' employee cash awards program for disclosing fraud, waste, or mismanagement. The pro- gram was established by section 1703 of the Omnibus Budget Rec- onciliation Act of 1981 (Public Law 97-35). This section amended chapter 45 of title 5, U. S. Code, which covers the gov- ernment's Incentive Awards Program. Under the act, the Inspec- tor General or any other employee designated under 5 U.S.C. 4512(b) may pay a cash award to employees of their agency whose disclosure of fraud, waste, or mismanagement results in cost savings. The award may not exceed the lesser of $10,000 or an amount equal to 1 percent of the cost savings attributable to the disclosure. The act requires the agencies to submit docu- mentation to the Comptroller General substantiating all awards made under the program. The Comptroller General is required to review the awards and procedures used in making the awards in order to verify the cost savings on which the awards are based. Our review covered 17 agencies, which employ 95 percent of the civilian work force (excluding Postal Service), and was made between October 1, 1983, and February 29, 1984. Our objectives were to (1) determine the status-of agencies' implementation of the awards program and (2) assess the reasonableness of cost savings claimed for awards made under the program. To accomp- lish these objectives, we reviewed agencies' award procedures, interviewed officials responsible for administering the program, (966158) GNERAL GOVERNMENT DIVISION 1211 it MAY 8, 1984 124111

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