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GAO-07-834R 1 (2007-05-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptavkc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Sai Accountability * Integrity * Reliability United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 May 30, 2007 The Honorable Thomas R. Carper Chairman, Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs United States Senate Subject: Improper Payments: Responses to Posthearing Questions Related to Agencies' Progress in Addressing Improper Payment and Recovery Auditing Requirements Dear Mr. Chairman: On March 29, 2007, we testified' before your subcommittee at a hearing entitled, Eliminating and Recovering Improper Payments. At the hearing, we discussed federal agencies' progress in addressing key requirements of the Improper Payments Information Act of 2002 (IPIA)2 and Section 831 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2002, commonly known as the Recovery Auditing Act. Our review and testimony focused on (1) trends in agencies' reporting under IPIA from fiscal years 2004 through 2006, (2) challenges in reporting improper payment information and improving internal control, and (3) agencies' reporting of recovery auditing efforts. This letter responds to your April 18, 2007, request to provide answers to follow-up questions relating to our March 29, 2007, testimony. The responses are based on work associated with previously issued GAO products (see Related GAO Products at the end of this report) and data reported in agencies' performance and accountability reports (PAR). Your questions, along with our responses, follow. 1. In your written testimony, you state that over half of the programs reporting improper payment estimates also had reported management challenges, 'GAO, Improper Payments: Agencies' Efforts to Address Improper Payment and Recovery Auditing Requirements Continue, GAO-07-635T (Washington, D.C.: Mar. 29, 2007). 2Pub. L. No. 107-300, 116 Stat. 2350 (Nov. 26, 2002). 3National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2002, Pub. L. No. 107-107, div. A, title VIII, § 831, 115 Stat. 1012, 1186 (Dec. 28, 2001) (codified at 31 U.S.C. §§ 3561-3567). GAO-07-834R Posthearing Questions

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