GAO also found significant improper payment rates in farm programs. Some 45.2% of payments in the Emergency Conservation Program in FY24 were considered improper as well as 12.8% of payments ...

Improper payments made through programs of the Health and Human Services Department, which ballooned during the COVID-19 pandemic, are on the decline but still amounted to more than 5% of outlays ...

Last year, the U.S. government made at least $162 billion in improper payments, according to a nonpartisan government watchdog. Kristin Kociolek of the Government Accountability Office also told a ...