Open Recommendations

Take appropriate action for the 159 beneficiaries and their families identified by our audit.

Evaluate the results of its actions for the 159 beneficiaries and their families and take appropriate action to notify the remaining population of disabled beneficiaries who may be eligible for higher family benefits.

Improve controls to ensure it informs disabled beneficiaries when they are eligible for higher family benefits if they elect retirement benefits.

We recommend that the Director of BIA work with the Indian Affairs’ Office of Facilities, Property, and Safety Management; the Director of BIE; and the Pine Hill School to review the existing inventory for the school and make any necessary corrections so the inventory and additional needs of the school are accurately reflected for funding considerations.

We recommend that FWS require the Division to certify that grant-funded, real properties are used for their intended purposes.

The Office of Administration should implement a control to ensure program integrity of the Financial Management Integrated System key vendor data files on an ongoing basis.

The Office of Administration should correct the discrepant vendor information identified during the ongoing program integrity reviews.

The Bureau of Fiscal Operations should implement updated Accounts Payable procedures to coincide with the deployment of the Financial Management Integrated System enhancements for the Invoice Processing Platform.