The federal government disbursed a reported $2.7 trillion in improper payments—amounts that either should not have been paid, were made for the incorrect amount, or otherwise lacked fidelity—over the ...

As the 119th Congress seeks to reduce government spending through reconciliation, talk of Medicaid reductions has raised ...

“One out of every $5 or $6 in Medicaid [payments] is improper.” Russell Vought stated on June 1, 2025, in an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union.” Responding to charges that President Donald ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Government Accountability Office (GAO), a nonpartisan congressional agency, published two reports in 2024 that found, ...

The improper payment rate for fiscal year 2024 was 3.97%. The last time that number dipped below 4% was in 2013. The Biden White House is touting reductions in agencies’ improper payments, as the ...

Republicans and Democrats took two very different approaches Tuesday to the issue of improper payments made by the Medicare and Medicaid programs. "For fiscal year 2023, GAO [the Government ...

Rachel Greszler is a senior research fellow in workforce and public finance in the Thomas A. Roe Institute for economic policy studies at The Heritage Foundation. Read her research. The government ...

EXCLUSIVE: A new DOGE-centric bill will be introduced Monday targeting overpayments by the federal government, which the lawmaker sponsoring it says have added up to the trillions since the George W.

An OIG report has found that overall DoJ was compliant with the Improper Payments and Recovery Act in fiscal year 2017. The Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Act of 2010 (IPERA) requires each ...

As the 119th Congress seeks to reduce government spending through reconciliation, talk of Medicaid reductions has raised concerns about vulnerable populations losing Medicaid coverage. But simply ...