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Audit of U.S. Agency for Global Media FY 2024 Compliance With Payment Integrity Requirements

United States Department of State Office of Inspector General

OIG concluded that 
  1. USAGM complied with payment integrity requirements for FY 2024; therefore, OIG is not offering any recommendations. 
  2. USAGM’s response to a draft of this report is reprinted in its entirety in Appendix B. 

Audit of U.S. Agency for Global Media FY 2024 Compliance With Payment Integrity Requirements

05/02/2025 10:04 AM EDT

What OIG Audited 

In FY 2024, improper and unknown federal payments government-wide totaled approximately $162 billion. 
The Payment Integrity Information Act of 2019 (PIIA) requires Inspectors General to annually determine whether agencies complied with the act and establishes requirements for agencies that are deemed noncompliant. 
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) conducted this audit to determine whether the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) complied with PIIA for FY 2024. 
As part of this objective, OIG also evaluated USAGM’s efforts to prevent and reduce improper and unknown payments.  

What OIG Found

  • For the FY 2024 reporting period, OIG found that USAGM complied with payment integrity requirements, as presented in Table 1. 
  • found that USAGM published the FY 2024 financial statement and accompanying materials, which included all applicable payment integrity information, on its website. 
USAGM also conducted program-specific risk assessments and made appropriate conclusions related to those risk assessments. 
  • OIG found that USAGM complied with PIIA requirements for the programs subject to risk assessments during FY 2024. 
  • These programs are presented in Tables 1 and 2 in the Audit Results section of this report.     
During the evaluation of USAGM’s efforts to prevent and reduce improper payments, OIG did not identify any needed improvements involving improper and unknown payments determination, the associated estimation methodology, or actions necessary to improve prevention and reduction. 

What OIG Recommends 

  1. OIG concluded that USAGM complied with payment integrity requirements for FY 2024; therefore, OIG is not offering any recommendations. 
  2. USAGM’s response to a draft of this report is reprinted in its entirety in Appendix B.
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