# COVID-19: More Can Be Done to Mitigate Risk to Unemployment Compensation Under The CARES Act
> **Audit** by Department of Labor OIG · 2020-08-07
> *About: Department of Labor*
## Report
- **Title:** COVID-19: More Can Be Done to Mitigate Risk to Unemployment Compensation Under The CARES Act
- **Submitting OIG:** Department of Labor OIG
- **Component agency:** Department of Labor
- **Type:** Audit
- **Publication date:** 2020-08-07

## Summary

https://www.oig.dol.gov/public/reports/oa/2020/19-20-008-03-315.pdf


## Recommendations

- **Rec 1** (Closed): The Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training should amplify its guidance to states that strongly encourages them to enlist employers to assist state officials identify the continued eligibility of individuals who refuse to return to work by…
- **Rec 2** (Closed): The Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training should include CARES Act UI transactions in the BAM or develop an alternative methodology to reliably estimate improper payments for those programs.
- **Rec 3** (Closed): The Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training should develop oversight processes that ensure states are administering the CARES Act UI programs so as to ensure payments to eligible individuals in a timely manner and that states are submitting…
- **Rec 4** (Open): The Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training should issue guidance directing states to provide access to state UI claimant data, in order to prevent and detect fraud.
## Source
- [oversight.gov report page](https://www.oversight.gov/reports/audit/covid-19-more-can-be-done-mitigate-risk-unemployment-compensation-under-cares-act)
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