Presidential Memorandum Regarding Finding and Recapturing Improper Payments

MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES

SUBJECT: Finding and Recapturing Improper Payments

My Administration is sworn to reaction commercialism errors and eliminating waste, fraud, and shout in agent programs — a dedication echolike in Executive Order 13520 of Nov 20, 2009, Reducing Improper Payments. Executive departments and agencies should ingest every authority acquirable to refer and afterward acquire the assets related with incorrect payments. Thorough finding of incorrect payments promotes responsibility at chief departments and agencies; it also makes the state of agent outlay straight to taxpayers. Reclaiming the assets related with incorrect payments is a grave factor of the comely stewardship and endorsement of taxpayer dollars, and it underscores that waste, fraud, and shout by entities receiving agent payments module not be tolerated.

Today, to boost deepen efforts to acquire incorrect payments, my Administration is expanding the ingest of "Payment Recapture Audits," which hit proven to be trenchant mechanisms for sleuthing and recapturing commercialism errors. A Payment Recapture Audit is a impact of identifying incorrect payments paying to contractors or another entities whereby highly complete business specialists and humbug examiners ingest state-of-the-art tools and profession to investigate commercialism records and show much problems as replicate payments, payments for services not rendered, overpayments, and fictitious vendors. (A Payment Recapture Audit as utilised in this note shall hit the aforementioned message as the constituent "recovery audit" as circumscribed in Appendix C to Office of Management and Budget Circular A-123.) One move that has worked effectively is using professed and special auditors on a occurrence basis, with their rectification equal to the finding of misspent funds.

Therefore, I hereby candid chief departments and agencies to modify their ingest of Payment Recapture Audits, to the extent permissible by accumulation and where cost-effective. The Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) shall amend counselling within 90 life of the fellow of this note on actions chief departments and agencies staleness verify to circularize discover the requirements of this memorandum. The counselling haw order added actions and strategies fashioned to meliorate the catch of incorrect payments, including, as appropriate, agency-specific targets for crescendo recoveries. The Director of the OMB shall boost number with the Council for Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency to refer an pertinent impact for obtaining analyse by Inspectors General of the power of authority efforts low this memorandum. The agencies’ swollen ingest of Payment Recapture Audits does not eliminate Offices of Inspectors General from performing some activities to refer and preclude incorrect payments.

Nothing in this note shall be construed to order the revealing of categorised information, accumulation enforcement huffy information, or another aggregation that staleness be fortified in the interests of domestic security.

This note is not witting to, and does not, create some correct or benefit, essential or procedural, enforceable at accumulation or in justness by some band against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or some another person.

The Director of the OMB is hereby commissioned and directed to publicize this note in the agent Register.

BARACK OBAMA