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OMB Update

OMB Update. Regina Kearney, Senior Advisor Karen Lee, Branch Chief Mike Wetklow, Branch Chief April 1, 2014. Progress in 2013. “Improper Payments Rate Drops for 4 th Straight Year”. OMB Publishes M-13-21 – Charge Card Act

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OMB Update

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  1. OMB Update Regina Kearney, Senior Advisor Karen Lee, Branch Chief Mike Wetklow, Branch Chief April 1, 2014

  2. Progress in 2013 “Improper Payments Rate Drops for 4th Straight Year” OMB Publishes M-13-21 – Charge Card Act “Weighing in at only four pages, the new memo is uncharacteristically easy to digest” “DHS gets first 'clean' audit”

  3. Federal Financial Management Objectives • Improve the quality, utility, and transparency of financial information • Protect against waste, fraud, and abuse • Help agencies maximize the impact of their limited financial resources

  4. Improper Payments Progress

  5. A-123 Appendix C Update A-123 Appendix C

  6. Do Not Pay Update As of June 1, 2013 all federal payments, as appropriate, are being checked against Do Not Pay (DNP) – Death Master File • Checking an average of 83 million payments and $152 billion monthly • All 24 CFO Act agencies are investigating their matches and submitting monthly adjudication reports Program Overview “Do Not Pay” is a centralized data-matching service run by the Treasury Department that allows Agencies to review multiple databases to determine a recipient’s award or payment eligibility. Databases IPERIA currently requires to verify eligibility include: • Death Master File • Excluded Parties List System • Debt Check Database • List of Excluded Individuals/Entities • Central Contractor Registration • Prisoner Update Processing System Significant Steps • Submitted a database plan to Congress and established an initial DNP “Working System,” focusing on the Death Master File • Issued Privacy guidance and coordinating agency efforts to set up “computer matching agreements” to check additional databases • Preparing for our first annual Congressional Report on the status of DNP NEW

  7. Guiding Principles for Upcoming OMB A-123 Revisions • Integrate Internal Control Frameworks • Financial Reporting and Data Quality • Reduce Compliance Burdens • Manage Risks • Strengthen Program Integrity • Relevant to Program Managers • Innovate through Data Analytics

  8. Financial Reporting: Burden vs. Utility Efforts to Date: • Eliminated Annual Debt Report to OMB • Eliminated Q1 and Q2 financial statements • Temporarily suspended Exhibit 52 requirements Future Focus: • Standardize Component level audit requirements • Examine differences between agency-level and government-wide statement requirements Q: What would you do to better balance burden and utility in financial reporting?

  9. Council On Financial Assistance Reform Priorities Spending Transparency Evidence Better Outcomes for Grants Financial Management Shared Services

  10. December 2013: Final Uniform Guidance “A Whole New World: OMB Publishes New Grants Reform Guidance” “OMB Simplifies Government-wide Grant Guidance”

  11. Grants Management Reform Implementation Q: How should we measure administrative burden, and accountability for Federal funds?

  12. Strong Program Oversight: Audit Resolution

  13. Workforce Development

  14. Grants Data Standardization

  15. Federal Spending Transparency • Quality: Improving data integrity • Completeness: Expanding the focus to include obligations and expenditures • Functionality: Providing a one-stop location for all Federal spending • Utility: Linking spending information to program activity

  16. Real Property Management GSA Brooklyn Warehouse SOLD IN 2011 Size: 1,000,000 square feet Sale Price: $10 million GSA Georgetown West Heat Plant SOLD IN 2013 Size: 20,000 square feet Sale Price: $19.5 million

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