Open Recommendations

Develop training on the proper use of Religious Compensatory Time and require all managers approving, and employees using, Religious Compensatory Time to complete the course.

We recommend that USBR promptly notify the Klamath Irrigation District of its obligation to repay the cost to design, construct, and operate and maintain the A-Canal head gates and fish screens and the total amount that must be repaid, as determined by USBR in Recommendations 1 and 2.

We recommend that USBR negotiate and establish a repayment contract with the Klamath Irrigation District to secure timely repayment of USBR's cost to design, construct, and operate and maintain the A-Canal head gates and fish screens, as determined by USBR in Recommendations 1 and 2.

Require New Mexico HSD verify enrollment and/or exemption, as applicable, for the four student cases identified, and if it is determined the students were ineligible, require HSD to determine if payments were improper and warrant establishment of a claim.

Require HSD to review the four cases identified to determine if payments were improper and warrant establishment of a claim.

The five cases identified above be reconciled with other State/Territory eDRS queries performed during the coverage gap period to identify disqualified individuals who may have attempted to receive benefits in another State/Territory.

Require New Mexico HSD review the two identified cases and verify income to determine if payments were improper and warrant establishment of a claim.

Require HSD to review the case identified to determine if payments were improper and warrant establishment of a claim.

Require HSD review the two cases identified to determine if payments were improper and warrant establishment of a claim.

Require HSD review the case identified to determine if payments were improper and warrant establishment of a claim.

Collect data on the Plan to Achieve Self-Support (PASS) program participation, costs, and outcomes.

Evaluate the PASS program’s impact on disability rolls periodically.

Establish routine program monitoring and quality control reviews.

We recommend that FWS require the Division to certify that grant-funded land is being used for its intended purposes.

The Bureau of Fiscal Operations should work with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to determine, adjust, and correct any erroneous reimbursement of Medicare management costs beginning with fiscal year 2010 to current.

The Bureau of Fiscal Operations should submit a detailed indirect cost rate proposal in support of its allowable and allocable indirect labor costs to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for approval prior to reimbursement.

The Bureau of Fiscal Operations should work with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to determine, adjust, and correct any erroneous reimbursements resulting from the allocation of all of the Railroad Retirement Board’s indirect labor and non-labor costs beginning with fiscal year 2010 to current.

The Bureau of Fiscal Operations should determine the correct Medicare direct labor reimbursement amount using the compliant employee profiles.

The Executive Committee should perform a time study of Medicare work performed by all agency staff.

The Executive Committee should establish an Office of Management and Budget Circular A-87 compliant and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services approved personnel activity report based system that will ensure the capture and reporting of actual Medicare work performed.

The Executive Committee should update the Railroad Retirement Board employee direct labor profiles to represent actual work performed based on an Office of Management and Bduget Circular A-87 compliant system methodology.

The Bureau of Fiscal Operations should adopt and implement Office of Management and Budget Circular A-87 as an agency requirement.