Improper Payments: Strategy and Additional Actions Needed to Help Ensure Agencies Use the Do Not Pay Working System as Intended, GAO-17-15: Published: Oct 14, 2016. Publicly Released: Nov 14, 2016.
“The Office of Management and Budget (OMB), in coordination with the Department of the Treasury (Treasury), developed the Do Not Pay (DNP) working system as a data matching service for agencies to use in preventing improper payments, but GAO found that the DNP working system offers either partial or no access to three of the six databases required by the Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Improvement Act of 2012, as amended. Specifically, the DNP working system offers no access to the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) prisoner records and partial access to the Credit Alert Interactive Voice Response System and SSA’s death records. The death records offered through the DNP working system do not include state-reported death data. SSA officials stated that sharing its full death file—which includes state-reported death data—would require an amendment to the Social Security Act. Sharing the full death file through the DNP working system would enhance efforts to identify and prevent improper payments….”