# Increasing Transparency into COVID-19 Spending
> **Inspection / Evaluation** by Pandemic Response Accountability Committee · 2021-10-19
> *About: Multiple Agencies*
## Report
- **Title:** Increasing Transparency into COVID-19 Spending
- **Submitting OIG:** Pandemic Response Accountability Committee
- **Component agency:** Multiple Agencies
- **Type:** Inspection / Evaluation
- **Publication date:** 2021-10-19

## Summary

The objective of this review was to identify specific gaps in transparency in award data for federal assistance spending in response to COVID-19. We looked at 51,000 awards worth $347 billion that supported the pandemic response (as of June 15, 2021). The report includes three findings, including we found more than 15,400 awards worth $33 billion with meaningless descriptions that make it difficult to know how COVID-19 relief money was used. The report includes five recommendations to help improve the transparency into COVID-19 relief spending.


## Recommendations

- **Rec PRAC-01** (Closed): OMB should, in coordination with the PRAC, offer resources for agencies that focuses on improving the quality of award descriptions to result in consistent use and application of this field across all agency submissions and to provide clarity on the…
- **Rec PRAC-02** (Closed): OMB should develop and implement a plan, leveraging its resources and in coordination with the PRAC, to disseminate to individual agencies examples of insufficient award descriptions in need of remediation.
- **Rec PRAC-03** (Open): OMB should engage with Congress to consider legislating amendments to extend independent oversight of USAspending.gov data submissions, including developing new requirements in consultation with CIGIE and the PRAC for the review of agency award…
- **Rec PRAC-04** (Open): OMB should conduct a feasibility study, in coordination with relevant federal and non-federal stakeholders, as to how to better track and report subrecipient funding.
- **Rec PRAC-05** (Open): OMB should engage with Congress to consider legislating amendments to extend independent oversight of USAspending.gov data submissions, including developing new requirements in consultation with the CIGIE and the PRAC for the review of subrecipient…
## Source
- [oversight.gov report page](https://www.oversight.gov/reports/increasing-transparency-covid-19-spending)
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