# COVID-19: ETA and States Did Not Protect Pandemic-Related UI Funds from Improper Payments Including Fraud or from Payment Delays
> **Audit** by Department of Labor OIG · 2022-09-30
> *About: Department of Labor*
## Report
- **Title:** COVID-19: ETA and States Did Not Protect Pandemic-Related UI Funds from Improper Payments Including Fraud or from Payment Delays
- **Submitting OIG:** Department of Labor OIG
- **Component agency:** Department of Labor
- **Type:** Audit
- **Publication date:** 2022-09-30

## Summary

https://www.oig.dol.gov/public/reports/oa/2022/19-22-006-03-315.pdf


## Recommendations

- **Rec 1** (Open): We recommend the Acting Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training: Use data collected from monitoring and BAM reports to identify the areas of highest improper payments including fraud and create a plan to prevent similar issues in future…
- **Rec 2** (Closed): We recommend the Acting Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training: Require states to have written policies and procedures, which apply lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic, to continue eligibility testing and BPC procedures during…
- **Rec 3** (Open): We recommend the Acting Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training: Work with NASWA to update the IDH Participant Agreement to require state to submit the results of their UI fraud investigations.
- **Rec 4** (Open): We recommend the Acting Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training: Work with NASWA to ensure the IDH cross matches are effective at preventing the types of fraud that were detected during the pandemic and regularly update using the results of…
- **Rec 5** (Closed): We recommend the Acting Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training: Work with the OIG and states to recover the greatest practicable amount of the $7,092,604 paid to claimants connected to likely fraudulent claims.
## Source
- [oversight.gov report page](https://www.oversight.gov/reports/audit/covid-19-eta-and-states-did-not-protect-pandemic-related-ui-funds-improper-payments)
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