Carlis Williams, Dept of Health & Human Services
Kay Brown, Director, USGAO Education
Mary Ellen Wiggins, The Office of Management and Budget
Jessica Shahin, Food & Nutrition Services USDA
PowerPoints Available
Kay Brown - New Congress focus on program integrity. 10 years into the Improper Payments Act - total $124.7 billion - TANF does not have a measure.Expects to be addressed in TANF reauthorization.
Medicare $59.9 billion
GAO - 14 - 704b GAO - 15 - 509sp Fraud Risk
TANF lacks incentives to increase client performance
expect Congress to focus on TANF accountability
SNAP fraud - selling of EBT cards
GAO is mandated to explore Child Care waiting lists
Congress has focus on understanding SNAP error rate
Cross program data sharing
Better understanding of poverty and who are the poor - new study forthcoming
Carlis Williams - Child Care and TANF programs
Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 2014 - changes in quality initiatives and data reporting requirements
http://www.researchconnections.org/childcare
TANF - States have flexibility and there is no requirement to measure payment accuracy. Reauthorization may address. Area of focus is workforce innovation and opportunity act (WIOA) May require employment outcome measures in the future.
Mary Ellen Wiggins - Performance Partnership Programs for Disconnected Youth initiative
Jessica Shahin - Integrity, Access and Well-Being of those who are serviced
will be doing QC reviews in the future. Looking at samples, bias, overall integrity
ABAWDS waivers may not be available for many states. ABAWDS must be tracked.
Timeliness - must be held accountable for - Put formal warning process in place in October 2014. Working, states are improving
Employment & Training is getting focus now. Presently increased to 5 staff in national office and a dedicated position in each regional office.
Better food choices and promotion of Farmer's Markets
Depth of stock requirements for retailers
Client fraud - client education effort, guide coming out in Fall 2015
Grants to improve investigation of recipient fraud - Best practices forthcoming
366B changes - under revision - out on Federal Register for comment presently.
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