New Access to Data Aids Probes into Fraud against Federal Retirement Program, Says Report
Article Excerpt: "...The inspector general’s office at OPM has said that access it gained last year to data in the Treasury Department’s “Do Not Pay” database is boosting its investigations into fraud against the federal retirement program.
That access “allows our investigative staff to use the robust death data available via the portal to compare the OPM annuity rolls with the death sources in the DNP system and perform searches for deceased annuitants and survivor annuitants. Thus far, we have found 1,200 annuitant records and more than $15 million in annual annuities for the OPM OIG to review for potential investigation and action,” the IG said in a report. ..."
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