Department of Economic Security Office of Special Investigations

Information discovered in the regular course of processing a case and quarterly interfaces with the Unemployment Insurance Administration

DSS uses audits to identify error rates but has never determined the total amount of error for the program.

Attendance/Termination Report

Office of Investigative Services

Pulled overpayment data which had been entered on to the State’s eligibility computer system. We did not pull underpayment data from the computer system as most often these are not considered improper payments, simply proper payments for services that were not initially anticipated by the agency (i.e.- the customer worked extra hours in a month).

Analysis of actual collections of fraud repayments & actual payment adjustments made to Providers for State Fiscal Years 2004 & 2005.

Office of the Inspector General investigators and Local Department staff

Minnesota is State supervised and county administered. Child care workers identify the improper payment and the county agencies report the results of their non fraud overpayment and underpayments through their quarterly reports to the State.

IPV tracking form

Our agency investigative unit, called Issuance and Collection Center, does a thorough audit of cases that are referred to them.

The Department relies on its Office of Special Investigations

A local audit is required annually for the LPA

Improper payments identified through the monitoring conducted by the Program Compliance Unit of the Division are tracked and a total amount is calculated. The amount of an improper payment caused by parent or provider fraud is calculated by the staff in the LPA.

Surveys of the CDJFS

Oklahoma Department of Human Services Office of Inspector General

reports of child care overpayments in the OKDHS overpayment system

Case workers review past child care issued to ensure that child care was issued correctly.

State auditors, Operations Review and Consultation, and Payment Review Program

Local fraud units