Department of Education

OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL

Fiscal Year 2024 Budget Request

CONTENTS

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Appropriations Language .............................................................................................................. 1

Analysis of Language Provisions and Changes............................................................................ 2

Amounts Available for Obligation .................................................................................................. 3

Obligations by Object Classification, Office of Inspector General................................................. 4

Obligations by Object Classification, Supplemental, Disaster Relief............................................. 5

Obligations by Object Classification, Supplemental, CARES Act (P.L. 116-136) ......................... 6

Obligations by Object Classification, Supplemental, CRRSA Act (P.L. 116-260) ......................... 7

Obligations by Object Classification, Supplemental, ARP Act (P.L. 117-2) .................................. 8

Summary of Changes ................................................................................................................... 9

Authorizing Legislation ................................................................................................................10

Appropriations History.................................................................................................................11

Activity:

Office of Inspector General.....................................................................................................12
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Appropriations Language

For expenses necessary for the Office of Inspector General, as authorized by section 

212 of the Department of Education Organization Act, [$67,500,000]$87,497,000, of which 

$3,000,000 shall remain available until expended.1 (Department of Education Appropriations 

Act, 2023.)

NOTE

Each language provision that is followed by a footnote reference is explained in the Analysis of Language 

Provisions and Changes document which follows the appropriations language.
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Analysis of Language Provisions and Changes

Language Provision Explanation

1...of which $3,000,000, shall remain 

available until expended.

The language provides that of the amount 

appropriated, $3 million would be no-year 

funding. The need for the additional flexibility 

is for two main reasons: (1) due to delays in 

hiring, multiyear funds provide additional 

flexibility to allow the OIG to restore its FTE 

level; (2) execute the IT Modernization project, 

and (3) since 17.25 percent of the OIG budget 

is associated with common support provided 

by the Department, multiyear funds allow for 

flexibility if actual costs are lower than 

expected and funds are returned to the OIG at 

end of the fiscal year (FY), or if actual costs 

are higher than expected and additional funds 

are required for the OIG.
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Amounts Available for Obligation

(dollars in thousands)

Appropriation and Adjustments 2022 2023 2024

Discretionary budget authority:

Appropriation $64,000 $67,500 $87,497

Transfer from Annual to OIG No-Year Funding -2,000 -3,000 -3,000

Disaster Relief unobligated balance, start of year 2,225 841 341

CARES Act unobligated balance, start of year 4,629 0 0

CRRSAA Act unobligated balance, start of year 5,000 3,214 1,115

American Rescue Plan Act unobligated balance, start of year 5,000 5,000 3,295

OIG No-Year Funding unobligated balance, start of year 2,000 2,325 2,000

Transfer to OIG No-Year Funding from Annual 2,000 3,000 3,000

Unobligated balance, expiring -1,007 0 0

Disaster Relief unobligated balance, end of year -841 -341 -341

CRRSAA Act unobligated balance, end of year -3,214 0 0

American Rescue Plan Act unobligated balance, end of year -5,000 -3,295 -426

OIG No-Year Funding unobligated balance, end of year -2,325 -2,000 -3,000

Total, direct obligations 70,467 73,244 90,481
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Obligations by Object Classification, Office of Inspector General

(dollars in thousands)

Object Class

2022

Actual

2023

Base

2024

Request

Change 

from 2023

to 2024

11.10 Full-time permanent $24,728 $32,884 $39,162 $6,278

11.31 Full-time temporary 933 0 0 0

11.32 Part-time 360 0 0 0

11.51 Overtime 1,835 0 0 0

11.52 Awards 783 790 1,282 492

Subtotal, Personnel Comp. 28,639 33,674 40,444 6,770

12.00 Benefits 12,290 14,478 17,234 2,756

Subtotal, Per. Com. & Ben. 40,929 48,152 57,678 9,526

21.00 Travel 486 350 1,567 1,217

22.00 Transportation of things 0 0 0 0

23.10 Rental payments to GSA 6,444 6,181 6,068 -113

23.31 Communications 131 100 200 100

23.32 Postage/fees 0 9 13 4

Subtotal, 23 6,575 6,290 6,281 -9

24.00 Printing and reproduction 0 1 1 0

25.10

Advisory and assistance 

services 848 0 30 30

25.21 Other services 2,478 3,732 4,094 362

25.22 Training/tuition contracts 410 254 799 545

25.30

Goods/services from Federal

Sources 1,474 1,467 2,165 698 

25.71 Operations/maint of equip. 15 1 153 152

25.72 IT services/contracts 8,418 6,838 11,154 4,316

Subtotal, 25 13,643 12,292 18,395 6,103

26.00 Supplies 113 76 124 48

31.10 IT equipment/software 654 317 3,130 2,813

31.30 Other equipment 473 22 321 299

Subtotal, 31 1,127 339 3,451 3,160

32.00 Building alterations 0 0 0 0 

Total, Budget Authority 62,873 67,500 87,497 19,997
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Obligations by Object Classification, Supplemental, Disaster Relief

(dollars in thousands)

Object class number Object Class

2022

Actual

2023

Base

2024

Request

Change 

from 2023

to 2024

11.10 Full-time permanent $955 0 0 0

11.31 Full-time temporary 35 $360 0 -$360

11.51 Overtime 2 0 0 0

Compensation subtotal 992 360 0 -360

12.00 Benefits 392 139 0 -139

Comp/benefits subtotal 1.384 499 0 -499

21.00 Travel 0 0 0 0

23.31 Communications 0 0 0 0

25.21 Other services 0 0 0 0

25.22 Training/tuition contracts 0 0 0 0

25.72 IT services/contracts 0 0 0 0

Subtotal 25 0 0 0 0

26.00 Supplies 0 0 0 0

31.10 IT equipment/software 0 0 0 0

Total, Obligations 1.384 499 0 -499
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Obligations by Object Classification, Supplemental, CARES Act (P.L. 116-136) 

(dollars in thousands)

Object class number Object Class

2022

Actual

2023

Base

2024

Request

Change 

from 2023 

to 2024

11.10 Full-time permanent 0 0 0 0

11.31 Full-time temporary $2,536 0 0 0

11.32 Part-time 0 0 0 0

11.51 Overtime 0 0 0 0

11.52 Awards 0 0 0 0

Compensation subtotal 2,536 0 0 0

12.00 Benefits 947 0 0 0

13.00 Benefits for former personnel 0 0 0 0

Comp/benefits subtotal 3,552 0 0 0

21.00 Travel 79 0 0 0

22.00 Transportation of things 0 0 0 0

23.10 Rental payments to GSA 0 0 0 0

23.31 Communications 1 0 0 0

23.32 Postage/fees 0 0 0 0

Subtotal 23 80 0 0 0 

24.00 Printing and reproduction 0 0 0 0

25.10 Advisory and assistance services 0 0 0 0

25.21 Other services 15 0 0 0

25.22 Training/tuition contracts 23 0 0 0

25.30 Goods/services from Federal sources 0 0 0 0

25.40 Operations/maint of facilities 0 0 0 0

25.70 Operations/maint of equip. 0 0 0 0

25.72 IT services/contracts 748 0 0 0

Subtotal 25 786 0 0 0 

26.00 Supplies 7 0 0 0

31.10 IT equipment/software 1 0 0 0

31.30 Other equipment 0 0 0 0

Subtotal 31 8 0 0 0 

Total, Obligations 4,426 0 0 0 
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Obligations by Object Classification, Supplemental, CRRSA Act (P.L. 116-260)

(dollars in thousands)

Object class number Object Class

2022

Actual

2023

Base

2024

Request

Change 

from 2023 

to 2024

11.10 Full-time permanent $1,178 0 0 0

11.31 Full-time temporary 43 $1,464 0 -$1,464

11.32 Part-time 46 0 0 0

11.51 Overtime 7 0 0 0

11.52 Awards 0 0 0 0

Compensation subtotal 1,274 1,464 0 -1,464

12.00 Benefits 493 586 0 -586

13.00 Benefits for former personnel 0 0 0 0

Comp/benefits subtotal 1 2,050 0 -2,050

21.00 Travel 0 135 0 -135

22.00 Transportation of things 0 0 0 0

23.10 Rental payments to GSA 0 0 0 0

23.31 Communications 0 0 0 0

23.32 Postage/fees 0 0 0 0

Subtotal 23 0 135 0 -135

24.00 Printing and reproduction 0 0 0 0

25.10 Advisory and assistance services 0 0 0 0

25.21 Other services 0 54 0 -54

25.22 Training/tuition contracts 0 30 0 -30

25.30

Goods/services from Federal 

sources 0 0 0 0

25.40 Operations/maint of facilities 0 0 0 0

25.70 Operations/maint of equip. 0 0 0 0

25.72 IT services/contracts 0 943 0 -943

Subtotal 25 0 1,027 0 -1,027

26.00 Supplies 0 1 0 -1

31.10 IT equipment/software 0 0 0

31.30 Other equipment 0 1 0 -1

Subtotal 31 0 2 0 -2 

Total, Obligations 1,767 3,214 0 -3,214
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Obligations by Object Classification, Supplemental, ARP Act (P.L. 117-2)

(dollars in thousands)

Object class number Object Class

2022

Actual

2023 

Base

2024 

Request

Change 

from 2023 

to 2024

11.10 Full-time permanent 0 0 0 0

11.31 Full-time temporary 0 $1,230 $1,230 0

11.32 Part-time 0 0 0 0

11.51 Overtime 0 0 0 0

11.52 Awards 0 0 0 0

Compensation subtotal 0 0 0 0

12.00 Benefits 0 475 475 0

13.00 Benefits for former personnel 0 0 0 0

Comp/benefits subtotal 0 1,705 1,705 0

21.00 Travel 0 0 135 $135

22.00 Transportation of things 0 0 0 0

23.10 Rental payments to GSA 0 0 0 0

23.31 Communications 0 0 0 0

23.32 Postage/fees 0 0 0 0

Subtotal 23 0 0 135 135

24.00 Printing and reproduction 0 0 0 0

25.10

Advisory and assistance 

services 0 0 0

25.21 Other services 0 0 54 54

25.22 Training/tuition contracts 0 0 30 30

25.30

Goods/services from Federal 

sources 0 0 0 0

25.40 Operations/maint of facilities 0 0 0 0

25.70 Operations/maint of equip. 0 0 0 0

25.72 IT services/contracts 0 0 943 943

Subtotal 25 0 0 1,027 1,027

26.00 Supplies 0 0 1 1

31.10 IT equipment/software 0 0 0 0

31.30 Other equipment 0 0 1 1

Subtotal 31 0 0 2 2 

Total, Obligations 0 1,705 2,869 1,164
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Summary of Changes

 (dollars in thousands)

2023 $67,500

2024 87,497

Net change +19,997

Increases: 2023 base

Change 

from base

Built in:

Increase in salaries and benefits for 31 FTE, projected 

benefits increase, and a 5.2 percent pay raise

$48,152 +$9,526

Program:

Other Equipment 22 +299

Supplies 76 +48

Postage/Fees 9 +4

IT Services/Contracts 6,838 +4,316

Other Services 3,732 +362

Changes in other areas 8,417 +4,897

Subtotal, increases +19,452

Decreases: 2023 base

Change 

from base

Program:

Training 254 -545

Subtotal, decreases -545

Net change +19,997
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Authorizing Legislation

(dollars in thousands)

Activity

2023

Authorized

2023

Appropriation

2024

Authorized

2024

Request

Inspector General (DEOA, Section 212) Indefinite $67,500 Indefinite $87,497

Total appropriation 67,500 87,497
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Appropriations History

(dollars in thousands)

Year

Budget Estimate 

to Congress

House 

Allowance

Senate 

Allowance Appropriation

20151 $62,347 N/A $59,700 $57,791

20162 59,181 N/A 58,791 57,791

20173 59,256 $59,256 57,791 59,256

20184 61,941 59,256 59,256 59,256

20195 61,143 59,256 61,143 61,143

20206 63,418 67,418 61,143 63,000

20217 68,019 64,000 63,000 63,000

20228 70,115 70,115 70,115 64,000

20239 76,452 76,452 77,000 67,500

2024 87,497

1 The House allowance is shown as N/A because there was no Subcommittee action; Senate allowance 

reflects Senate Subcommittee action only.

2 The levels for House and Senate allowances reflect action on the regular annual 2016 appropriations 

bill, which proceeded in the 114th Congress only through the House Committee and Senate Committee.

3 The levels for the House and Senate allowances reflect Committee action on the regular annual 2017 

appropriations bill; the Appropriation reflects the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2017.

4 The level for the House allowance reflects floor action on the Omnibus appropriation bill; the Senate 

allowance reflects Committee action on the regular annual 2018 appropriations bill; the Appropriation 

reflects the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018 (P.L. 115-141).

5 The levels for the House and Senate allowance reflect Committee action on the regular annual 2019

appropriations bill; the Appropriation reflects enactment of the Department of Defense and Labor, Health and

Human Services, and Education Appropriations Act, 2019 (P.L. 115-245).

6 The Senate allowance reflects the Chairman’s mark; the Appropriation reflects the Further 

Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 (P.L. 116-94).

7 The level for the House Allowance reflects subcommittee action. The level for Senate Allowance reflects the 

Chairman’s mark; the Appropriation reflects Division H of the FY 2021 Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 

(P.L. 116-260).

8 The House allowance reflects floor action on the FY 2022 Consolidated Appropriations Act; the Senate allowance 

reflects the Chairman’s mark; and the Appropriation reflects the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022 (P.L. 117-

103). 9 The House allowance reflects the regular annual FY 2023 appropriation, which was introduced on the floor; the 

Senate allowance reflects the Chairman’s mark; and the Appropriation reflects the Consolidated Appropriations 

Act, 2023 (P.L. 117-328).
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Office of Inspector General

(Department of Education Organization Act, Section 212)

(dollars in thousands)

FY 2024 Authorization: Indefinite 

Budget Authority: Period of fund availability: 

2023 Appropriation 2024 Request Change

Personnel Compensation and 

Benefits Costs

$48,152 $57,678 +$9,526

Non-Personnel Costs 19,348 29,819 +10,471

Total 67,500 87,497 +19,997

FTE 2321 2632 +31

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION 

The U.S. Department of Education (Department) Office of Inspector General (OIG) is an 

independent entity within the Department with the statutory responsibility to carry out activities 

to promote economy, integrity, efficiency, and effectiveness of the Department’s programs and 

operations and to prevent and detect fraud, waste, and abuse involving those programs and 

operations.

To meet its statutory mission, the OIG conducts independent and objective audits, 

investigations, inspections, other reviews, performs and provides technical and administrative 

duties and assistance related thereto. The OIG has the authority to inquire about all program 

and administrative activities of the Department and related activities of all parties working under 

contracts, grants, or other arrangements with the Department.

Through audit-related work, the OIG seeks to ensure that Department programs are operating 

in accordance with established laws, regulations, and policies. Based on its findings, the OIG 

makes recommendations to improve program efficiency, address systemic weaknesses, and 

initiate administrative action. Its work may also recommend changes needed in Federal laws, 

regulations, and policies. In its investigative work, the OIG operates with full statutory law 

enforcement authority, conducting criminal, civil, and administrative investigations involving 

fraud, embezzlement, public corruption, cybercrime, and other violations of law involving 

Department funds and operations. The OIG also conducts information technology (IT) reviews 

to assist the Department in identifying risks and recommending actions to improve security and 

management of its numerous data systems. In addition, the OIG fulfills statutory requirement to 

ensure that work performed by non-Federal auditors involving Department program 

participants, grantees and subgrantees complies with Government Auditing Standards. This 

1 Fiscal Year 2023 FTE total excludes CARES, CRRSA, and ARP Act FTE.

2 Fiscal Year 2024 FTE total excludes CRRSA, and ARP Act FTE.
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includes conducting desk reviews and quality control reviews of non-Federal audits. Each year, 

the OIG issues about 25 audit-related reports, carries a caseload of more than 200 criminal 

and civil investigations, and completes more than 100 desk and quality control reviews.

Through its work and efforts, the OIG looks to ensure integrity in the Department’s operations 

and programs by identifying problems or deficiencies and recommending actions to improve 

them. The OIG shares information on its organizational goals and initiatives, planned and 

completed work, performance measures and results, via the OIG website, where the public can 

obtain copies of its audit-related reports and news on its investigations. The website also hosts 

the OIG Hotline where the public can submit allegations of fraud, waste, or abuse involving 

Department funds, programs, or operations, as well as file whistleblower reprisal complaints. 

Allegations can be reported in six languages. The OIG Hotline also includes a toll-free phone 

number (1-800-MISUSED) for the public to report or receive assistance in reporting their 

allegations to the OIG. The OIG Hotline receives about 300 complaints via email and 

200 telephone contacts each month. The OIG also receives over 100 complaints per month 

through Federal Student Aid’s (FSA) Feedback system.

The OIG staff is composed of criminal investigators, auditors, inspectors, attorneys, financial 

and forensic analysts, specialists, and other business professionals. As of this submission 

date, the OIG conducts its work via 17 office locations across the country. Due to significant 

financial challenges facing the OIG in fiscal year 2023, it anticipates consolidating several of its 

offices in fiscal year 2023 to immediately reduce cost. Although the OIG is not certain how 

many offices it will have in fiscal year 2024, it knows that 40 percent of the OIG staff will be 

assigned to the OIG’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., and 60 percent of its staff will be 

assigned to one of its regional offices.

Funding levels for the past 5 fiscal years were:

Fiscal Year (dollars in thousands)

2019 61,143

2020 63,000

2020 CARES Act 7,000

2021 63,000

2021 CRRSA Act 5,000

2021 Mandatory ARP Act 5,000

2022 64,000

2023 67,500

FY 2024 BUDGET REQUEST 

For fiscal year 2024 operations, the Administration requests $87.5 million, $20 million more than 

fiscal year 2023. The requested funding level includes $3 million in no-year funding to allow for 

much-needed flexibility to cover frequent, unanticipated year-end expenses and cover any cost 

overruns associated with the required IT modernization upgrades. 

At the fiscal year 2024 requested funding level, the OIG will have the ability to sustain 263 fulltime equivalent (FTE) employees, an increase of 31 FTEs from fiscal year 2023. This will allow 

the OIG to expand its audit and investigative efforts and provide more robust and effective 

oversight of the OIG’s expanding and diverse programs, operations, and funding. 
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The Administration understands that this is a significant increase ($20 million) above its actual 

fiscal year 2023 appropriation as opposed to the fiscal year 2023 request (an increase of $11 

million); however, the OIG fiscal year 2023 appropriation will require it to make significant 

reductions in FTEs and other costs to bring the expenditures in line with its resources. 

Specifically, the OIG will need to cover required expenses or otherwise mandated operational 

and systems modernization upgrades. As a result, the OIG will not be able to sustain a full time 

equivalent (FTE) level of 232. To achieve these reductions, the OIG has implemented a fiscal 

year-long across-the-board hiring freeze and will not backfill positions as they become vacant, 

have reduced its overall mission-support trainings and travel, and are examining potential office 

closures and elimination of certain contracts and contractor support to help the OIG carry out its 

work. Without the possibility of a significant increase in the fiscal year 2024 appropriation, the 

OIG is likely facing the need to further reduce its existing workforce, resulting in a reduction in 

audit and investigative activities that generate arrests and indictments and millions of dollars in 

savings and recoveries integral to appropriately protecting the integrity of education programs. 

As the Administration has shared in previous budget requests, with its student loan portfolio 

(which now surpasses $1.6 trillion) the Department is one of the largest financial institutions in 

the country. The Department also administers more than $70 billion in grants each year, making 

it one of the largest grant-making agencies in the Federal government. Further, Department 

funding flows out to thousands of eligible entities, including all the States and territories, about 

17,000 school districts and 98,000 public schools, about 5,600 postsecondary institutions, and 

more than 10 million individual recipients of Federal student aid funds each year. With such a 

large amount of money going to an equally as large number of programs and program 

participants, and given the Department’s reliance on contractor support, effective oversight and 

monitoring of Department programs, operations, and program participants are critical. Oversight 

and monitoring, however, are longstanding management challenges for the Department. 

Therefore, the role of the OIG as the entity responsible for overseeing the Department’s 

operations, programs, and funds, is so vital. However, the steady state of funding since fiscal 

year 2015 has not allowed the OIG to both cover increased operational costs and hire muchneeded FTEs to conduct certain oversight work. Instead, the OIG had to implement partial hiring 

freezes and divert funds it intended to use for FTEs to cover the increased operational costs. 

This has impacted the OIG’s output and has held us back from where it feels it needs to be as a 

statutory oversight entity.

The tables and figure below describe the OIG’s budget over the last seven years, FTEs, and the 

impact it has had on the OIG’s output.

Table 1. OIG Funding. Since FY 2015, the OIG’s appropriation has not grown sufficiently to 

keep pace with the demands for work, services, and inflation.

FY 

2015

FY 

2016

FY 

2017

FY 

2018

FY 

2019

FY 

2020

FY 

2021

FY 

2022

FY 

2023

$57.7

Million

$59.2

Million

$59.2

Million

$61.1

Million

$61.1

Million

$63 

Million

$63

Million

$64

Million

$67.5

Million
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Figure 1. Lack of Significant Growth in FTE. Unanticipated costs associated with common 

support and general personnel and non-personnel services have required the OIG to divert funds 

it intended to use for FTEs to cover those costs. This has impacted the OIG’s output (see Table 

2 below) and ability to fully meet the demands for services. There may well be an even bigger 

drop in output in FY 2023 due to the OIG’s present resource challenges that has forced the OIG 

to implement an across-the-board hiring freeze and not backfill positions as they become vacant.

No-Year Funding

For fiscal year 2024, the OIG requests $3 million for no-year funding. This no-year funding 

provides the OIG with additional flexibility for frequent, unanticipated year-end changes usually 

associated with common support and central IT support provided by the Department. These 

multiyear funds allow for flexibility if actual costs are lower than expected and funds are returned 

to the OIG at the end of the fiscal year, or if actual costs are higher than expected and additional 

funds are required from the OIG.

Staffing Challenges and FY 2024 Opportunities

This fiscal year 2024 budget request provides the OIG with opportunities to address and remedy 

six operational challenges in a meaningful and impactful way. The narrative below provides

specific information on those challenges; specific information on four opportunities for 

improvement; and ways the OIG can address these challenges and significantly improve its

ability to provide a wider range of oversight of the Department’s programs, operations, and 

funding. 

• Challenge 1: Staffing

Personnel compensation and benefits is the OIG’s largest pool of costs (65.9 percent of 

the OIG budget). If the fiscal year 2024 budget request is met, the OIG will be able to 

sustain 263 FTEs. This is an increase of 31 FTEs above fiscal year 2023 enacted level. 

With 263 FTEs, the OIG will be able to better meet the needs for its services by providing

more robust and effective oversight of the Department’s programs and operations. At this 

funding level, the OIG could lift its fiscal year 2023 hiring freeze and would no longer 

need to divert funds to cover operational costs as it has for the last seven years.
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• Challenge 2: Common Support and Centralized Services

Overhead is the OIG’s second largest pool of costs (17.25 percent of the OIG budget). In 

fiscal year 2023, the OIG anticipates these costs will be $13.711 million for overhead and 

Departmental centralized services (i.e., rent, interagency agreements for services such 

as payroll processing, security guard services in buildings that house OIG staff, 

background security investigations, communications, and IT services and contracts). In 

fiscal year 2024, the OIG understands that these costs will rise dramatically to $15.089

million—an increase of $1.4 million. The reasons for this significant increase include the 

implementation of the Department’s enterprise cybersecurity programs and rental 

payments to the General Services Administration. This $1.4 million needs to be covered 

in fiscal year 2024 regardless of the OIG’s ultimate appropriation. However, without a 

significant increase in appropriation, the OIG will find itself where it has been over the last 

seven years: unable to sustain much less hire enough FTEs, which will negatively impact 

its oversight capabilities and output.

• Challenge 3: IT Modernization 

In addition to meeting Federal initiatives to adopt a cloud-first strategy, the White House 

has directed all Federal agencies to have a plan to adopt a Zero-Trust cybersecurity 

posture by the end of fiscal year 2024. The OIG maintains three IT systems that are 

impacted by this requirement, two of which are non-cloud systems. These systems are 

used for data analytical purposes that allow it to proactively identify fraud, waste, and 

abuse and to detect illegal electronic financial transactions, including unauthorized 

payment requests, ineligible program participants, and program abuse and fraud. These 

systems will require substantial modernization for cloud migration and Zero-Trust 

implementation. In fiscal year 2023, the OIG anticipate directing approximately $3.3 

million of its annual appropriation to maintain these systems. In fiscal year 2024, the OIG 

will need to dedicate $4.0 million for these systems to cover the cost of a systems 

assessment and to begin the process of upgrading and migrating these systems to meet 

Zero-Trust requirements. In addition, in fiscal year 2024 the OIG must be prepared to 

commit FTE resources to oversee and maintain this new IT posture and upgraded 

systems.

• Challenge 4: Body Cameras for Federal Law Enforcement

On June 7, 2021, the U.S. Department of Justice mandated that all Federal law 

enforcement agencies use body-worn cameras when executing pre-planned arrest and 

search and seizure warrants. The President supported this effort in his May 25, 2022, 

Executive Order on Advancing Effective, Accountable Policing and Criminal Justice 

Practices to Enhance Public Trust and Public Safety. All Federal law enforcement 

agencies must adhere to this requirement. In addition to procuring the body cameras, 

agencies will need digital evidence software and cloud-based data storage. In fiscal year 

2023, the OIG directed $200,000 of its appropriation to procure 85 body-worn cameras 

and related tools for storing, maintaining, and downloading the information captured by 

the cameras. For fiscal year 2024, the OIG will need to direct $120,000 to support the 

data maintenance and storage for the body-worn cameras.
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• Challenge 5: Pandemic Relief Aid Oversight

In fiscal year 2020 and fiscal year 2021, the OIG received $17 million ($10 million in noyear funding) to carry out its pandemic relief aid oversight work. This funding was 

authorized and appropriated via the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic 

Security (CARES) Act ($7 million), the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021-

Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act ($5 million), and 

the American Rescue Plan ($5 million). The OIG’s CARES Act funding expired at the end 

of fiscal year 2022, and the OIG is on course to expend the remainder of this 

supplemental funding by the second quarter of fiscal year 2024. Although the OIG will 

largely have completed the audit-related work planned for the funding by the time it is 

expended, there will be audit-related and investigative work still to do. This may include 

audit-related work involving new uses of pandemic relief aid or areas where closer 

scrutiny of these allowances may be needed. Further, criminal investigations often occur 

(and extend) long after the Department’s obligation of the funding and grantee and 

subgrantee spending. Complex fraud schemes can take several years to develop and 

investigate, with additional time needed for investigative support to the Department of 

Justice during the prosecution. Since fiscal year 2020, the OIG has relied on 

supplemental funding to sustain 1 term and 11 rehired annuitants to conduct pandemic 

oversight work. As these funds are expended and their term agreements expire, the OIG

not only lose these employees, but will need to rely on its FTE to carry out its remaining 

pandemic oversight work. As such, the OIG fiscal year 2024 appropriation must be at a 

level where it can increase FTE levels so that it can continue its oversight work in the 

absence of supplemental appropriations-funded term employees.

In addition, the OIG invested $750,000 of its pandemic supplemental funds for advanced 

analytical and cyber intelligence tools that provide critical information that support its 

oversight efforts. In anticipation of the depletion of its pandemic supplemental funds in 

fiscal year 2024, the OIG will need to direct $800,000 of its annual appropriation to 

maintain these tools.

• Challenge 6: Unplanned Assignments: The OIG must always be prepared to dedicate 

resources to address new or emerging risks or new Departmental programs and 

responsibilities, which often is unplanned. For example, in fiscal year 2022, the Congress 

passed, and the President signed into law the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act. The law

provides the Department with more than $2 billion for the School Improvement Programs 

and Safe Schools and Citizenship Education program, along with new reporting, and 

other responsibilities. It did not include supplemental funding for the OIG to conduct 

oversight work related to the programs and funding related thereto. This means that the 

OIG needs to rely on its annual appropriation to conduct audits, investigations, or other 

oversight work specific to the law. Given the significance of the Bipartisan Safer 

Communities Act, the OIG will need to be prepared in fiscal year 2024 to dedicate 

resources to conduct work related thereto. Further, it must be prepared to conduct 

unplanned work specific to any new Department programs or responsibilities included in 

the final fiscal year 2024 appropriations bill, or new Department and FSA initiatives that 

may require closer scrutiny. Without additional appropriations that will enable the OIG to 

hire much-needed staff, it will be a challenge to conduct unplanned work without 

impacting other ongoing or planned priority work.

Should the OIG receive the fiscal year 2024 requested funding level of $87.497 million, $3 million 

in no-year funding, it could absorb the $19.997 million in increased costs noted above and 

support an FTE level of 263. This would present the OIG with tremendous opportunities to get 
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the oversight efforts where they need to be, allowing the OIG to be agile enough to take on 

unplanned assignments without impacting other mission critical work.

• Opportunity 1: Expanded Audit-Related Capabilities

For the last seven years, the OIG has completed about 25 audit-related reviews annually. 

However, many of these products, such as financial statement, information technology 

security, and improper payment audits, are required to be completed periodically by 

statute. The need to perform these and other mandated reviews have limited its ability to 

perform discretionary assignments. As the OIG focused that limited work in areas posing 

the most significant risk or impact to the Department, it left many Department programs 

and operations free from OIG oversight. Further, the OIG has not been agile enough to 

take on unplanned assignments often requested by its stakeholders in a timely manner 

without postponing or canceling other priority work. This is unacceptable for an 

organization with the financial and programmatic responsibilities of the Department. With 

its present financial posture, hiring freeze and not backfilling positions as they become 

vacant, it is only with an increase in the OIG fiscal year 2024 budget that will have the 

opportunity to expand its level of oversight and audit-related capabilities. The muchneeded staff additions will enable the OIG to:

o Establish and adequately staff a new component within Audit Services dedicated to 

conducting inspections, evaluations, and quick response work. 

o Expedite nationwide audit work to allow the OIG to cover multiple external entities 

(such as States) simultaneously and complete work in a timelier fashion.

o Increase audit coverage of emerging areas and programs and operations with 

heightened risk.

o Conduct audit and investigative work to cover the following priorities and high-risk 

areas.

 Student Financial Assistance Programs

• Contractors. FSA relies heavily on contractors to operate its computer 

systems and perform many of the functions necessary to process, award, 

service, and account for student aid. The OIG has consistently identified 

problems with FSA’s contract oversight. Planned and ongoing work includes 

FSA’s implementation of the Student Aid and Borrower Eligibility Reform 

Initiative, FSA’s transition plans for Business Process Operations vendors, 

and the effectiveness of FSA’s Federal student loan borrower defense loan 

discharge process. 

• Postsecondary Institutions. The OIG plans to continue to conduct audits of 

proprietary, nonprofit, and public schools. The interests of schools may not 

always align with the purposes of the Federal student financial assistance 

programs and could harm students and lead to the misuse of Federal funds. 

Planned and ongoing work may include compliance with Career Pathways 

program and Ability-to-Benefit requirements.

• Oversight and Monitoring of Student Financial Assistance Program 

Participants. The OIG’s audits of FSA’s oversight of program participants, 
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schools, lenders, and servicers have consistently identified weaknesses. 

Planned and ongoing work includes an assessment of the extent to which 

FSA identifies individuals who belong to underserved communities and 

performs related outreach and FSA’s processes for overseeing proprietary 

school compliance with 90/10 revenue requirements.

 State and Local Programs

• Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). ESSA reauthorized the Elementary and 

Secondary Education Act. ESSA is a departure from its predecessor, as it 

provides States with more flexibility and control over education policy. Planned 

and ongoing work includes reviews of States’ implementation of their ESSA 

State plans, focusing specifically on Statewide accountability systems and 

required assessments, and the Department’s oversight processes to ensure 

that the plans are being followed. 

• Charter Schools. The Department’s Charter Schools Program provides 

funding that is intended to help create new public charter schools, replicate 

high-quality public charter schools, and disseminate information about 

effective practices within charter schools. The OIG’s ongoing work includes a 

review of the Department’s oversight of Charter School Program Grants for 

Replication and Expansion of High-Quality Charter Schools, also known as 

Charter Management Organization grants.

• Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). IDEA authorizes programs 

to help educate children with disabilities and governs how States and public 

agencies provide early intervention, special education, and related services. 

Ongoing work includes a review to determine what steps the Department has 

taken to implement its final regulations on significant disproportionality in 

special education. 

 Departmental Operations

• Financial Statement Audits. The Government Management Reform Act of 

1994 expanded the Chief Financial Officers Act of 1990 by requiring, among 

other things, the annual preparation and audit of organization-wide financial 

statements of the Executive Branch departments. The OIG annually oversees 

and monitors the work performed by an independent public accounting firm 

contracted to provide an opinion on whether Department and FSA financial 

statements are fairly presented. Under OIG oversight, the independent public 

accounting firm also reports any material weaknesses and significant 

deficiencies in the Department’s or FSA’s internal control over financial 

reporting and any instances of noncompliance with certain laws, regulations, 

contracts, and grant agreements.

• Improper Payments. The Payment Integrity Information Act of 2019 requires 

each agency’s inspector general to determine the agency’s compliance with 

the statute for each fiscal year. As part of this review, the OIG also evaluates 

various actions concerning improper payments taken by the agency.

 Non-Federal Audit Activities
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• The Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended, requires that inspectors 

general take appropriate steps to ensure that any work performed by nonFederal auditors complies with Government Auditing Standards. To fulfill 

these requirements, the OIG performs several activities, including conducting 

desk reviews and quality control reviews of non-Federal audits, providing 

technical assistance, and issuing audit guides to help independent public 

accountants or audit organizations performing audits of participants in the 

Department’s programs.

• Opportunity 2: Criminal, Civil, and Administrative Investigations

The OIG strives to investigate all legitimate allegations of fraud, corruption, and other 

criminal activity involving the Department’s funds and programs. Due to staffing 

limitations, the OIG has focused its efforts on statutory investigations (i.e., whistleblower 

reprisal complaints) and matters of the highest priority that would have the most 

significant impact on the Department’s programs and operations. The OIG needs to do 

more. Bad actors and fraudsters may be able to further their schemes and scams while 

the OIG tackles statutory and higher risk, higher priority cases. This fiscal year 2024 

budget request would allow the OIG to hire additional criminal investigators so it can 

expand the investigative caseload and coverage, including the following: 

o Expand investigative reach to geographic areas where it has not been in recent years 

but where it believes fraud exists at the same level as other States, and well as those 

areas where U.S. Attorney’s Offices have expressed significant interest in working on 

education-related fraud matters. 

o If budget allows, expand fraud awareness outreach efforts to help educate and train 

stakeholders and the public on education-related fraud schemes and fraud indicators, 

Including contract fraud specific to construction or after-school and tutoring programs, 

areas significantly vulnerable to fraud.

o Optimize data analytics and improve its ability to identify and combat new and 

emerging high-tech fraud schemes.

o Increase OIG investigative reach and efforts in the following high-risk areas:

 Postsecondary Education Fraud. The OIG will increase its focus on fraud 

involving postsecondary education, which have long represented the largest 

concentration of education program dollars at risk. Recent examples of this type 

of fraud included a nurse practitioner who was charged in a $10 million Total and 

Permanent Disability fraud scam, and a school owner who agreed to pay 

$1 million to settle allegations that they improperly influenced the school's Student 

Loan Default Rate. 

 Elementary and Secondary Education Fraud. The OIG will increase its focus on 

allegations of bribery and theft involving State and local public-school officials.

Although this fraud is not new, the OIG is seeing new types of schemes, such as 

a recent investigation involving Alabama school officials who engaged in a 

scheme to defraud the State’s virtual education program. With the additional 

opportunities for States and schools to utilize Department funding for construction 

and tutoring contracts, again areas where the OIG has identified significant fraud, 

it would be better positioned to assist stakeholders in identifying, preventing, and 
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reporting fraud in these areas. This includes fraud involving charter schools, 

where the OIG has long identified vulnerabilities to fraud.

 Distance Education Fraud. The OIG will be able to take on additional criminal 

investigations involving fraud resulting from the vulnerabilities associated with the 

delivery of distance education, rather than limiting its efforts on those cases with 

the most significant financial loss. For the last several years, it has referred to the 

Department distance education matters not investigated by the OIG, totaling more 

than $14.9 million in potential fraud.

 Network Intrusion and Cybercrime. As the Department’s data systems house the 

personally identifiable information of millions of student loan borrowers and their 

families, the OIG will continue to prioritize efforts to detect intrusions and 

unauthorized access into the Department’s systems and criminal misuse of the 

Department’s systems and electronic data. Further, the OIG will continue its

investigative efforts and partnering with Federal and state prosecutorial partners 

on identifying and prosecuting unscrupulous individuals and entities that misuse 

Department data systems for criminal purposes, such as third-party debt relief 

companies. At the fiscal year 2024 requested level, the OIG will be able to employ 

new tools and techniques to identify new and emergency threats and conduct 

advanced digital forensics in support of high-technology investigations.

 Pandemic Relief Aid Investigations. As noted above, although the OIG’s 

supplemental pandemic appropriation is expected to be depleted by the second 

quarter of fiscal year 2024, its work will continue. The OIG will continue to detect 

fraud and conduct criminal investigations resulting from vulnerabilities associated 

with the diversion of pandemic relief aid funds or the illegal interference with the 

Department’s ability to effectively provide authorized assistance. In fiscal year 

2022, it conducted 119 preliminary inquiries involved pandemic relief funding and 

currently have 20 open investigations.

• Opportunity 3: IT Security and Data Analytics Capabilities

The Department maintains 166 systems that are classified as operational and are 

reportable under the Federal Information Security Modernization Act (FISMA). Many of 

these systems contain the personally identifiable information of millions of people and are 

used to administer and disburse billions of Federal student aid dollars. For several years 

due to budget limitations, the OIG has only been able to complete the statutory FISMA 

audit, as it is one of the largest, most resource-intensive audits it completes each year. 

As such, the OIG has relied on contractor personnel support to complete the required 

work. In fiscal year 2022, the OIG awarded a contract to perform the annual FISMA audit, 

to allow it to dedicate FTEs to conduct other much-needed IT security audits and reviews 

in fiscal year 2023. With the fiscal year 2024 budget request, the OIG will be able to do 

even more in terms of these IT security-related reviews as well as expand in the following 

areas.

o Conduct additional data analytics projects to proactively identify criminal activity 

impacting the Department’s programs, examine the effectiveness of its programs, and 

proactively identify misuse, theft, and other criminal activity involving the 

Department’s funds.

o Conduct more robust vulnerability assessments to greatly increase the OIG’s ability to 
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identify and report security threats against the Department’s IT infrastructure. Protect 

against the loss or compromise of sensitive information. 

o Expand predictive analytics capabilities to proactively identify fraud, waste and abuse 

and detect illegal electronic financial transactions, including unauthorized payment 

requests, ineligible program participants, and program abuse and fraud. 

o Produce additional IT-related audits involving Department data systems and security 

functions, such as incident response and contract oversight, as well as breach 

notification procedures at institutions participating in the Federal student aid programs 

and housing Departmental data

• Opportunity 4: Mission Support Activities

Although auditors and investigators tend to get the spotlight, their efforts are supported by 

a team of professionals who assist in carrying out the OIG’s work. This includes legal 

staff, management, business, and communications professionals. Over the last several 

years, due to budget constraints, the OIG has implemented an across-the-board hiring 

freeze, unable to backfill positions as they became vacant. This has had an impact on its 

mission support activities where the OIG has not been able to hire many new staff. As 

such, some of its mission support staff have said they felt overburdened and left the OIG 

for better opportunities. Without sufficient mission support staff, it runs the risk of delays 

and reduction in its overall output and limit the OIG’s ability to implement internal 

improvements. At this fiscal year 2024 budget request, the OIG will have the opportunity 

to bring new and much-needed mission support staff on board and reduce the risk of 

overburdening its staff and causing them to leave the OIG for better opportunities. The 

OIG would have the ability to hire mission support staff in areas where it currently has 

only one person conducting the work, including procurement, and areas where existing 

staff take on additional responsibilities, such as internal and external communications and 

website management. This lack of a bench puts tremendous pressure on existing staff 

who handle these activities in addition to their regular responsibilities, leaving the OIG 

unable to fulfill these tasks in a timely manner when the staff member conducting this 

work is out of the office. Further, with additional mission support staff, OIG would be able 

to enhance internal programs, like the quality assurance program and the enterprise risk 

management program. These programs help ensure the efficiency, effectiveness, and 

reliability of OIG products and services.
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FY 2024 Distribution of Costs 

The chart below is a summary and breakdown of the OIG’s distribution costs for fiscal year 2024. 

Personnel Compensation and Benefits Costs

For fiscal year 2024, the Administration requests $57.678 million for Personnel Compensation 

and Benefits, $9.526 million more than the fiscal year 2023 enacted level. At the fiscal year 2024 

funding request, the OIG will be able to sustain 263 FTEs. The Personnel Compensation and 

Benefits amount includes 5.2 percent proposed cost of living increase and law enforcement 

availability pay (required by 5 U.S.C. § 5545) for criminal investigators who are required to be 

available during hours that are not part of the regular work week. 

Overhead

Overhead is the OIG’s second largest pool of costs (17.25 percent of the OIG budget). The fiscal 

year 2024 budget request includes $15.089 million for anticipated overhead cost/departmental

centralized services. Rent and the Department’s IT contract uses about 83.43 percent of the 

centralized services resources. The IT services and contracts amounts are primarily for the 

Department’s IT contracts, which cover equipment, telecommunications, processing services, 

network support, end-user support, maintenance, and improvements. Other items included in 

overhead costs are interagency agreements for services such as payroll processing, guard 

services, and background security investigations.

Overhead

17.25%, $15.1

Other Non-Personnel

16.88%, $14.8

Personnel 

Compensation & 

Benefits

65.87%, $57.6

FY 2024 Distribution of Costs

($ in millions)

Overhead includes funding not executed by the OIG: rent, telecommunication, 

interagency agreements, and IT services. 

Other Non-Personnel includes funding executed by the OIG: travel, advisory 

and assistance services, training, and CIGIE support.
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Departmental Centralized Services

(dollars in thousands)

Item

2023

Base 2024 Request Difference

Rent $6,181 $6,068 -$113

Central IT 5,428 6,521 +1,093

Other Central Support 2,102 2,500 +398

Centralized Services $13,711 $15,089 $1,378

Other Non-Personnel Costs

For fiscal year 2024, the Administration requests $14.773 million for Other Non-Personnel, 

$9.093 million more than the fiscal year 2023 enacted level. This represents 16.88 percent of the 

OIG’s overall budget including travel, training, goods/services from shared Federal services, IT 

needs that are not covered by the Department’s centralized services, and other services.

Travel

For fiscal year 2024, the Administration requests $1.567 million for travel, $1.217 million more 

than the fiscal year 2023 enacted level. The OIG anticipate that it will continue to conduct on-site 

work as well as conduct that work virtually. OIG staff typically travel to locations across the 

country to interview personnel and examine records at State educational agencies, local 

educational agencies, schools, other grantees, loan servicers, contractors, and other recipients 

of Federal education funds. Although the OIG has some leverage in not traveling to conduct 

aspects of this work, the OIG’s criminal investigators must continue to travel to Federal, State, 

and local courthouses, and numerous locations to interview witnesses, conduct search and 

arrest warrants, and testify at court hearings. These destinations often fall outside of where OIG 

staff are located, thus necessitating travel. 

Training

For fiscal year 2024, the Administration requests $723,000 for training, $554,000 more than the 

fiscal year 2023 enacted level. This includes training funds for professional, statutorily mandated, 

or other required training for the OIG’s auditors, investigators, business professionals, and other 

staff. As required by the Government Accountability Office, auditors performing work under 

generally accepted Government auditing standards must maintain professional competencies 

through 80 hours of continuing professional education every 2 years. The OIG’s criminal 

investigators must also complete mandatory law enforcement training requirements to obtain and 

maintain their statutory law enforcement authorities. In addition, the requested amount will cover 

the costs of review courses and examinations to obtain professional certifications, enhance IT 

skills to address ever-increasing computer requirements and combat threats, and increase 

competencies for all OIG staff. In fiscal year 2023, the OIG limited its training to the minimum 

mandatory required training.
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To minimize costs, it will continue to use online courses where practical, and use free courses 

offered through the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency (CIGIE) and 

other OIGs. The OIG also uses qualified in-house staff to deliver training, including accredited 

trainers to deliver firearms and other mandated training to OIG investigators. The OIG will use 

vendor-offered courses only for critical training not available through these means. 

In accordance with the Inspector General Act, 5 U.S.C. app 3 § 6(g)(1), the Inspector General 

has certified that the amount requested for required training of its staff, including amounts 

designated for the statutorily required training provided by the Federal Law Enforcement Training 

Center, the Inspector General Criminal Investigator Academy, and in the Department’s 

centralized services, would satisfy all the OIG’s fiscal year 2024 training requirements.

Goods/Services from Government

For fiscal year 2024, the Administration requests $565,000 for Goods and Services from shared 

Federal sources, $175,000 more than the fiscal year 2023 enacted level. Within this request, 

$349,000 will cover the OIG’s funding support for CIGIE, in accordance with § 6(g) of the 

Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended, 5 U.S.C. This contribution is 0.40 percent of the 

OIG’s fiscal year 2024 designated funding level based on a total budget request of $87.5 million. 

This fiscal year 2024 request also includes $216,000 in miscellaneous interagency agreements 

covering a variety of services provided by other Federal agencies, of which $105,000 is 

designated for the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center and the Inspector General Criminal 

Investigator Academy for required training.

Other Services

For fiscal year 2024, the Administration requests $3.388 million for Other Services, $408,000 

more than the fiscal year 2023 enacted level. This includes services for its statutory financial 

statements audit and its FISMA audit. These are the largest audits the OIG conducts each year. 

They are resource-intensive, thus require us to rely on contractor assistance to complete. Other 

services covered in this section include $508,000 for car leases. The OIG leases vehicles from 

the GSA for law enforcement purposes.

• Financial Statements Audits. In accordance with the Inspector General Act of 1978, as 

amended, and the Chief Financial Officers Act of 1990, as amended, the OIG oversees 

the financial statement audits. The audits will result in reports on the Department’s and 

FSA’s financial statements. Audits will examine and analyze account balances, review 

applicable financial systems, and evaluate internal controls and compliance with certain 

laws, regulations, contracts, and grant agreements. The audits will assess the fair 

presentation of the financial statements, make recommendations for improving financial 

management and accountability, and identify areas requiring further review by 

management. 

• FISMA. Title III of the E-Government Act, the Federal Information Security Management 

Act of 2002, as amended by FISMA, requires inspectors general to perform independent 

evaluations of the effectiveness of their agency’s information security programs. The 

requested funding will result in reports on the effectiveness of general and technical IT 

security controls of the Department’s mission-critical and support systems and the 

Department’s overall information security plans, programs, and practices.
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Building Alterations

In fiscal year 2024, the OIG’s budget request does not include funds for the OIG’s anticipated 

expiring leases and construction costs associated with its offices and any other building 

alteration costs. These funds have been included in the Department’s budget request. As such, 

the Department will be responsible for covering those costs directly.

FY 2024 GOALS AND PRIORITIES 

In fiscal year 2022, the OIG issued its Strategic Plan for fiscal years 2023-2028. In this plan, the 

OIG present four overarching goals:

• Goal 1: Maximize its Value to Stakeholders. Promote effectiveness in the 

Department’s programs and operations by delivering relevant and timely information to its 

stakeholders.

• Goal 2: Combat Program Fraud and Cyber Threats. Conduct timely, high-quality 

investigations and digital analyses to detect and deter fraud, waste, abuse, and other 

criminal activity involving Department programs and operations.

• Goal 3: Invest in the OIG Workforce. Cultivate a talented and diverse workforce and an 

inclusive, equitable, and accessible workplace that inspires engagement, creativity, and 

excellence.

• Goal 4: Innovate and Collaborate. Implement innovative and collaborative internal 

processes that leverage technology, foster strategic thinking, and advance organizational 

effectiveness.

In the OIG Strategic Plan, it shared the key strategies it will use to meet these goals and 

provided examples of the measures by which the OIG would assess its performance in doing so. 

Yearly goals and results are presented in annual performance results report that will be made 

available to the public via the OIG website. 
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PROGRAM PERFORMANCE INFORMATION

Performance measures

The following information was included in the fiscal year 2023 President’s Budget Request; 

however, OIG did not include a Performance Results Report for fiscal year 2023 in its Strategic 

Plan for fiscal years 2023-2028. Several key performance measures are shown below. The OIG 

fiscal year 2022 results were presented in its fiscal year 2022 Performance Results Report is 

available here on its website.

Measure: Audits initiated each year in accordance with policy and focused on areas of high risk 

or significant importance.

Year Target Actual

2018 85% 100%

2019 85% 100%

2020 85% 100%

2021 85% 100%

2022 85% 100%

Measure: Investigations initiated each year in accordance with policy and focused on areas of 

high risk or significant importance.

Year Target Actual

2018 80% 92%

2019 80% 89%

2020 75% 91%

2021 75% 90%

2022 75% 94%

Measure: Recommendations in reports issued during the fiscal year accepted by the 

Department and corrective action plans agreed to by OIG management.

Year Target Actual

2018 90% 94%

2019 90% 91%

2020 90% 100%

2021 90% 94%

2022 90% 100%
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Measure: Audits and alternative projects met the agreed-on dates for field work completed and 

draft report submitted for review in accordance with policy.

Year Target Actual

2018 75% 94%

2019 75% 91%

2020 75% 87%

2021 75% 88%

2022 80% 88%

Measure: Initial audits and alternative projects were evaluated in accordance with policy and 

approved by OIG senior management within 70 days of audit field work completion.

Year Target Actual

2018 NA NA

2019 NA NA

2020 70% 92%

2021 70% 91%

2022 75% 83%

Measure: Draft audit and alternative project reports were issued in accordance with policy, 

accepted by OIG management, and issued within 1 year from entrance conference.

Year Target Actual

2018 65% 74%

2019 70% 89%

2020 70% 72%

2021 70% 71%

2022 75% 88%

Measure: Preliminary inquiries of fraud, waste, and abuse processed for case initiation 

(investigation) or closure with a final disposition within 120 days.

Year Target Actual

2018 75% 76%

2019 70% 77%

2020 70% 80%

2021 70% 88%

2022 75% 92%
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Measure: Preliminary inquiries converted to full investigations by OIG management that resulted 

in a criminal, civil or administrative action, or monetary result (Investigation Services).

Year Target Actual

2018 70% 81%

2019 70% 80%

2020 70% 70%

2021 70% 78%

2022 70% 76%

Measure: Preliminary inquiries converted to full investigations by OIG management that resulted 

in a criminal, civil or administrative action, or monetary result, or actionable referral to the 

Department.

Year Target Actual

2018 50% 50%

2019 70% 100%

2020 70% 75%

2021 70% 80%

2022 70% 76%

Measure: IT audits issued in accordance with policy and accepted by management by the 

agreed-on date.

Year Target Actual

2018 75% 100%

2019 90% 98%

2020 75% 81%

2021 75% 88%

2022 85% 94%

Measure: Substantive comments provided by OIG resulted in changes in legislation, regulations, 

or other policies.

Year Target Actual

2018 70% 86%

2019 70% 78%

2020 70% 71%

2021 70% 90%

2022 75% 88%
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Measure: Freedom of Information Act responses processed in accordance with statutory 

requirements and delivered to requestors within required deadlines.

Year Target Actual

2018 90% 91%

2019 90% 78%

2020 90% 71%

2021 90% 81%

2022 90% 91%

Measure: Hotline complaints processed in accordance with policy and within the established 

deadlines.

Year Target Actual

2018 75% 94%

2019 80% 95%

2020 85% 95%

2021 85% 94%

2022 85% 85%