Submitting OIG:
Report Description:
We found that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) overpaid its employees because it mistakenly believed the Department’s payroll provider had an automated control to prevent payments over the annual cap, and because it did not follow its own premium pay policy. We also found that FEMA has no effective policy or practice to determine the Fair Labor Standards Act status of FEMA employees during disaster deployments, which also contributed to this issue. Since discovering the overpayments, FEMA has been working to calculate how many people were overpaid, but it cannot finish that analysis until it addresses a number of outstanding questions.
Date Issued:
Tuesday, July 31, 2018
Agency Reviewed / Investigated:
Submitting OIG-Specific Report Number:
OIG-18-71
Component, if applicable:
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
Location(s):
United States
Type of Report:
Audit
Number of Recommendations:
4
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OIG-18-71-Jul18_withoutforms.pdf | 2.99 MB |
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