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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 831141" data-attributes="member: 12952"><p><strong>Govt. Doles Out $125 Billion In “Improper Payments” </strong></p><p></p><p>With the national debt and federal spending at an all-time high several U.S. government agencies joined forces to make an outlandish $125 billion in “improper payments” last year, an increase of more than $16 billion from the previous year.</p><p>The impropriety is so pervasive that President Obama issued a much-ballyhooed order last summer commanding federal agencies to create a <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/presidential-memorandum-enhancing-payment-accuracy-through-a-do-not-pay-list" target="_blank">“Do Not Pay List”</a> to protect taxpayer resources and stem abuse. It has done nothing to protect increasingly scarce taxpayer dollars, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the investigative arm of the U.S. Congress.</p><p>There seems to be no end in site to the waste, according to GAO investigators, who diplomatically state that “challenges” remain in “determining the full extent of improper payments across the federal government and in reasonably assuring that effective actions are taken to reduce improper payments.” Some agencies don’t even bother reporting improper payments, the GAO says, so the full extent of the problem will never really be known.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 831141, member: 12952"] [B]Govt. Doles Out $125 Billion In “Improper Payments” [/B] With the national debt and federal spending at an all-time high several U.S. government agencies joined forces to make an outlandish $125 billion in “improper payments” last year, an increase of more than $16 billion from the previous year. The impropriety is so pervasive that President Obama issued a much-ballyhooed order last summer commanding federal agencies to create a [URL="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/presidential-memorandum-enhancing-payment-accuracy-through-a-do-not-pay-list"]“Do Not Pay List”[/URL] to protect taxpayer resources and stem abuse. It has done nothing to protect increasingly scarce taxpayer dollars, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the investigative arm of the U.S. Congress. There seems to be no end in site to the waste, according to GAO investigators, who diplomatically state that “challenges” remain in “determining the full extent of improper payments across the federal government and in reasonably assuring that effective actions are taken to reduce improper payments.” Some agencies don’t even bother reporting improper payments, the GAO says, so the full extent of the problem will never really be known. [/QUOTE]
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