Capture GAO Improper Payment Series via Scrape & FOIA
- Organization
- U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO)
- Sector
- Data analysts, researchers, and future compliance entrepreneurs
- Location
- United States federal government
Source reference
Executive summary
Current state
GAO audit reveals seven federal agencies with programs reporting 10%+ improper payment rates for 2-4 consecutive years, with five agencies lacking documented policies for consistent reporting. The Treasury Department faces $186 billion in annual improper payments but cannot achieve compliance without external solutions due to regulatory ambiguity and procedural deficits.
Market catalyst
GAO has published 11 reports on improper payments with specific findings about 7 noncompliant agencies, but the data is scattered across PDFs and HTML pages with no centralized, machine-readable dataset available to the public.
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