Social Security Administration: Remote Service Delivery Increased during...
What GAO Found COVID-19 prompted the Social Security Administration (SSA) to make dramatic changes in the way it delivers services and administers its programs. On March 17, 2020, SSA closed its...
View ArticleServicemembers Transitioning to Civilian Life: DOD Can Better Leverage...
What GAO Found To improve the Transition Assistance Program (TAP), the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 (FY 2019 NDAA) includes provisions requiring the service branches to...
View ArticleEmergency Rental Assistance: Treasury's Oversight is Limited by Incomplete...
What GAO Found The Department of the Treasury administers the Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) program, which provides nearly $46.55 billion to tribal, state, territorial, and local governments...
View ArticleUnemployment Insurance: Data Indicate Substantial Levels of Fraud during the...
What GAO Found Considered together, measures and estimates indicate substantial levels of fraud and potential fraud in unemployment insurance (UI) programs during the pandemic. However, each measure...
View ArticleMilitary Child Care: DOD Efforts to Provide Affordable, Quality Care for...
What GAO Found Little research exists detailing the effects of the Department of Defense (DOD) child care program on young children's learning and development outcomes. Broader child care research,...
View ArticleUnemployment Insurance: DOL Needs to Address Substantial Pandemic UI Fraud...
What GAO Found GAO found evidence of substantial levels of fraud and potential fraud in unemployment insurance (UI) during the pandemic. GAO estimated over $60 billion in fraudulent UI payments by...
View ArticleSubminimum Wage Program: DOL Could Do More to Ensure Timely Oversight
What GAO Found Through the 14(c) program, the Department of Labor (DOL) certifies employers to pay individuals with disabilities wages below the federal minimum—also known as subminimum wage. Employer...
View ArticleChild Welfare: HHS Is Taking Steps to Help States Support Relative Caregivers...
What GAO Found Kinship navigator programs provide information to kin caregivers on programs and services to meet their needs and the needs of the children they are raising. The Department of Health and...
View ArticleHUD Rental Assistance: Serving Households with Disabilities
What GAO Found The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) provided rental assistance to an estimated 1.8 million households with disabilities, according to the 2019 American Housing Survey...
View ArticleChild Care: Subsidy Eligibility and Use in Fiscal Year 2019 and State Program...
What GAO Found The Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) is the primary source of federal funding to states for subsidies that help low-income families afford child care so parents can work, attend...
View ArticleSpecial Operations Forces: Actions Needed to Assess Performance of the...
What GAO Found U.S. Special Operations Command established the Preservation of the Force and Family program about a decade ago to address strains that special operations forces and their families can...
View ArticleServicemembers Transitioning to Civilian Life: DOD Could Enhance the...
What GAO Found To improve the Transition Assistance Program (TAP), federal law required the service branches to establish counseling pathways, among other actions. GAO found that DOD service branches...
View ArticleChild Care: Observations on States' Use of COVID-19 Pandemic-Related Funding
What GAO Found The Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) is the largest federal child care program, providing grants to states to improve the affordability, availability, and quality of child care....
View ArticleFamily Child Care Networks: Actions Needed to Better Assess Quality...
What GAO Found Family child care networks (i.e., networks) are community-based programs that support family child care providers. As of March 2022, 142 networks received federal funds through the Child...
View ArticleCommunity Redevelopment: Significant Improvements in Policies and Procedures...
What GAO Found The mission of NeighborWorks America, a congressionally chartered nonprofit, is to revitalize neighborhoods. The organization has made progress in establishing policies, procedures, and...
View ArticleMeat and Poultry Worker Safety: OSHA Should Determine How to Address...
What GAO Found Companies reported taking steps to address COVID-19 in response to federal guidance. Most of the 15 companies responding to GAO's survey said they encouraged distancing in communal...
View ArticleU.S. Access Board: Interagency Efforts to Promote Accessibility for People...
What GAO Found The U.S. Access Board, which works to promote accessibility for people with disabilities, has collaborated with federal agencies to carry out the three key areas of its mission:...
View ArticleHunger and Homelessness: Funding Distribution for Key Programs
What GAO Found Five key federal programs can provide food or housing assistance to those experiencing or at risk of homelessness: the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Continuum of Care...
View ArticleAmateur Athlete Safety: Certification Related to the Independence of the U.S....
What GAO Found The U.S. Center for SafeSport (the Center) is a nonprofit organization that plays a key role in ensuring the safety of amateur athletes. The Center has jurisdiction over the U.S. Olympic...
View ArticleHUD Rental Assistance: Enhanced Data and Strategy Could Improve Oversight of...
What GAO Found Federal civil rights laws require housing providers to make reasonable accommodations to help ensure that households with disabilities have equal opportunities to use and enjoy their...
View ArticleUnemployment Insurance: DOL Needs to Further Help States Overcome IT...
What GAO Found The eight states in GAO's study were in varying phases of modernizing their unemployment insurance (UI) IT systems, ranging from planning to operations and maintenance. As of February...
View ArticleTrauma-Informed Care: Challenges to Developing and Implementing Performance...
What GAO Found To ensure that youth receive trauma-informed care across systems and in a coordinated manner, communities need support to build infrastructure and capacity. Congress may authorize a...
View ArticleUnemployment Insurance: Estimated Amount of Fraud During Pandemic Likely...
What GAO Found Based on statistical sampling and imputation techniques, GAO estimates that the amount of fraud in unemployment insurance (UI) programs during the COVID-19 pandemic was likely between...
View ArticleSpecial Education: Additional Data Could Help Early Intervention Programs...
What GAO Found States and territories (states) use different definitions of “developmental delay” and different program eligibility criteria for their early intervention programs, which serve infants...
View ArticleDisability Insurance: SSA Faces Ongoing Challenges with Overpayments
What GAO Found Overpayments in the Social Security Administration's (SSA) Disability Insurance program can impose burdens on disability insurance beneficiaries and taxpayers. GAO and past research have...
View ArticleCredit Cards: Pandemic Assistance Likely Helped Reduce Balances, and Credit...
What GAO Found Approximately half of active credit card accounts carried a balance during the period from June 2013 through 2019, according to GAO's analysis of a nongeneralizable sample of more than...
View ArticleVA Disability Benefits: Actions Needed to Address Challenges Reserve...
What GAO Found The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) approved 11 to 20 percent fewer initial disability compensation claims from members of the reserve components—the Reserves and National Guard—than...
View ArticleVA Disability Benefits: Board of Veterans' Appeals Should Address Gaps in Its...
What GAO Found The Board of Veterans' Appeals (Board) has a quality assurance (QA) process and a related accuracy measure for its decisions. Specifically, its QA process involves: 1) checking a random...
View ArticlePaid Parental Leave: OPM Should Take Steps to Further Raise Awareness of the...
What GAO Found The Federal Employee Paid Leave Act of 2019 (FEPLA) provided a new paid parental leave benefit to most federal civilian employees. FEPLA amended the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993...
View ArticleChild Care: Selected States Are Taking Steps to Sustain Program Changes...
What GAO Found In all five selected states, child care officials reported using supplemental funding to make investments and program changes to address preexisting challenges facing families and child...
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