Do Not Pay Advancements

in Assisting Agencies in Preventing and 

Detecting Improper Payments

May 24, 2018
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• The Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Improvement Act of 

2012 (IPERIA) required the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to 

implement a “Working System” to assist agencies in identifying and 

preventing improper payments. 

• OMB designated the responsibility of creating this system to Treasury, 

which operates the Do Not Pay Business Center (DNP). 

• The Treasury Working System and DNP are elements of OMB’s larger 

government-wide Do Not Pay Initiative. 

Legislation
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The Federal Improper Payments Coordination 

Act of 2015 (FIPCA) expanded the Improper 

Payments Elimination and Recovery 

Improvement Act of 2012 (IPERIA) authority for 

states among other entities, to use the Do Not 

Pay Initiative, including the Business Center, for 

the purpose of verifying payment or award 

eligibility for payments. 

FIPCA and DNP
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• Provide a variety of tools designed to assist agencies 

in identifying improper payments

• Dedicated to detecting and preventing improper 

payments

• Committed to providing:

– Quality data

– Customized agency outreach

– Cutting edge data analytics

– Continuous system development

Do Not Pay Goals
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Components of Do Not Pay

Web-based

Portal

Agency 

Support

Data 

Analytics 

Services

Do Not Pay 

Business Center
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• A central location for improper payment related data 

needs.

The Product: Do Not Pay Portal

Online Search

User can search an individual or entity and view matching 

records 

Batch Match & Continuous Monitoring

User sends a file(s) of payees to be matched against DNP data 

sources -- available as a one time or continuous match service

Payment Integration

Displays payments disbursed by Treasury via Payment 

Automation Manager that are matched against the Death 

Master File – user can review and/or adjudicate the matches $
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• DNP User Community Events

– Best Practices Forum

– DNP Day(s)

– Grants Management Forum

– Focus Groups

Agency Outreach
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Adjudication of multiple records

• Ability to adjudicate multiple records at one time.

• Matches can be sorted by column headings.

• Let us know if training is needed.

Save and Print details from Online Search

• Users can now save and print both summary and

detail results to provide documentation of searches 

and to investigate matches outside of the DNP Portal.

Removal of SAM Exclusion Restricted

• Conducted outreach which resulted in a majority of 

agencies do not see the benefit of SAM Exclusion

Restricted in Payment integration.

• Agency focus on pre-award/pre-payment.

Focus Group Related Enhancements
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Data Sources Available in the DNP Portal

• Credit Alert System (CAIVRS) Restricted [DOJ, HUD, SBA, USDA & VA ]

– Verify whether an individual is a delinquent federal borrower

• Death Master File (DMF) Public [SSA]

– Verify whether an individual receiving payments is deceased

• List of Excluded Individuals & Entities (LEIE) Public & Restricted [HHS]

– Verify whether payments are to entities excluded from participating in federal health care programs

• Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) Public [Treasury]

– Verify whether an individual or entity is prohibited from entering into financial transactions with U.S. financial institutions 

and the U.S. government

• System for Award Management (SAM) Entity Registration Records Restricted [GSA]

– Verify that a vendor seeking to do business with the federal government has registered, in accordance with the Federal 

Acquisitions Regulation

• SAM Exclusion Records Public & Restricted [GSA]

– Verify whether payments are to debarred individuals

• Treasury Offset Program (TOP) Debt Check Restricted [Treasury]

– Identify vendors that owe federal non-tax debt and ensure vendors that owe debts are paid via the Treasury Offset 

process
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DNP has access to the Internal Revenue Service’s 

Exempt Organizations Select Check data sets

Contains records of organizations eligible and ineligible to 

receive tax-deductible charitable contribution and grants 

targeting tax-exempt entities

Publication 78 

990-N (e-Postcard)

Automatic Revocation List

Available through Data Analytics Services

New: Non-Profit Entity Status
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DNP also has access to multiple sources of death data:

– Social Security Administration’s - Death Master File 

(Public)

– Department of Defense Death Records

– Department of State Death Records

– American Infosource (AIS) Death Data

Available through Data Analytics Services

New: Death Data

NEW!
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• Flexible project types

– Standard & Custom projects

• Flexible to your data needs

– Use DNP data

– Use data from your systems 

– Ability to pilot data sources

• Flexible to your business rules

– Utilize your matching logic

– Incorporate your specific eligibility requirements

Data Analytics Services
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Eligibility Verification

Use advanced matching techniques that can prevent 

and detect payments to ineligible recipients

Preventive methods:

• Screen grantees for status

• Verify status prior to active disbursements
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Integrity Checks

• Common and effective way to identify improper 

payments from a variety of sources

– Process or administrative errors, database or 

system processing issues, intentional effort to 

commit fraud

• Identify hard-to-detect 

payment errors and fraud 

risk in payments, invoices,

or vendors

• Results help establish a baseline evaluation of 

effectiveness of current internal controls
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Examples of Integrity Checks

Risk Category Areas of Focus

Duplication

• Duplicate vendors 

• Duplicate payments

False/invalid 

Information

• Invalid Taxpayer Identification Numbers (TINs), names, bank 

accounts, or addresses

• Fictitious vendors

High-risk Approvers

• Unusually high approval rates

• Approval of unusually high prices and/or quantities

High-risk Payees

• Ineligible payees 

• Frequent or unjustified information changes over time 

(changing bank accounts, addresses, etc.)

Other forms of high-risk 

invoices or payments

• Invoice amounts with shifted decimals

• Payments to unusual or high-risk locations
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Preventive Controls

Analysis of data evaluating data quality and data 

integrity to verify internal controls and identify areas of 

highest risk, allowing agencies to prioritize training or 

audit opportunities.
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Custom Research & Ad Hoc Analyses

DNP Data Analytics will develop a solution that can 

address your improper payment needs
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Please contact:

Do Not Pay Agency Support 

Center

855-837-4391

donotpay@stls.frb.org

https://donotpay.treas.gov

Questions