# COVID-19 EIDL Program Recipients on the Department of Treasury's Do Not Pay List
> **Review** by Small Business Administration OIG · 2021-11-30
> *About: Small Business Administration*
## Report
- **Title:** COVID-19 EIDL Program Recipients on the Department of Treasury's Do Not Pay List
- **Submitting OIG:** Small Business Administration OIG
- **Component agency:** Small Business Administration
- **Type:** Review
- **Publication date:** 2021-11-30

## Summary

We produced this Management Advisory to notify Small Business Administration (SBA) officials of serious concerns about potential improper payments in SBA’s Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program.Our review of Treasury’s analysis of processed COVID-19 EIDL and emergency EIDL grants from March to November 2020 revealed that SBA’s lack of adequate pre-award controls during this period of review led to 75,180 COVID-19 EIDLs totaling over $3.1 billion and 117,135 emergency EIDL grants totaling over $550 million being disbursed to potentially ineligible r


## Recommendations

- **Rec 1** (Closed): Implement prepayment and preaward procedures and use the batch match or continuous monitoring functions available in Treasury’s DNP system to identify potentially ineligible applicants before disbursing COVID-19 EIDL program funds.
- **Rec 2** (Open): Use Treasury’s DNP analysis to systemically flag COVID-19 EIDL and Emergency EIDL grant recipients who were found in Treasury’s DNP system and not previously reported by OIG. Review the applications and determine whether they are deemed ineligible. If…
- **Rec 3** (Open): For all COVID-19 EIDLs and Emergency EIDL grants identified and flagged as potentially ineligible above, include those transactions in SBA’s 2021 improper payments estimation process.
## Source
- [oversight.gov report page](https://www.oversight.gov/reports/covid-19-eidl-program-recipients-department-treasurys-do-not-pay-list)
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