What OIG Audited
In FY 2023, improper and unknown federal payments government-wide totaled approximately $236 billion. The Payment Integrity Information Act of 2019 (PIIA) requires Inspectors General to annually determine whether agencies complied with the act and establishes requirements for agencies that are deemed noncompliant.

The Office of Inspector General (OIG) conducted this audit to determine whether the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) complied with PIIA for FY 2023. As part of this objective, OIG also evaluated USAGM’s efforts to prevent and reduce improper and unknown payments.

What OIG Recommends
OIG concluded that USAGM complied with payment integrity requirements for FY 2023; therefore, OIG is not offering any recommendations. USAGM’s response to a draft of this report is reprinted in its entirety in Appendix B.

What OIG Found
For the FY 2023 reporting period, OIG found that USAGM complied with payment integrity requirements, as presented in Table 1.

OIG found that USAGM published the FY 2023 financial statement and accompanying materials, which included all applicable payment integrity information, on its website. USAGM also conducted program-specific risk assessments and made appropriate conclusions related to the risk assessments. OIG found that USAGM complied with PIIA requirements for the programs subject to risk assessments during FY 2023. These programs are presented in Tables 1 and 2 in the Audit Results section of this report.

During the evaluation of USAGM’s efforts to prevent and reduce improper payments, OIG did not identify any needed improvements involving improper and unknown payments determination, the associated estimation methodology, or actions necessary to improve prevention and reduction.