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“The USDA Office of Inspector General is committed to collaborating with federal, state, and local agencies to combat fraud affecting USDA programs in our communities. In support of the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, USDA OIG is proud to work closely with all law enforcement partners to investigate fraud and hold offenders accountable,” said Special Agent-in-Charge Matt Wilkins.
“Collaboration across all layers of government and bringing criminal and administrative enforcement tools to bear is the way we combat SNAP fraud. OIG is proud to support these actions in Ohio.” — USDA IG John Walk
We found that controls existed to ensure Ohio did not use SNAP administrative funds for participant benefits; however, our analytics of FY 2024 participant data identified 17,000 out of 917,000 households had anomalous data, representing $13.3 million in questioned costs.
We determined that the Rural Housing Service did not consistently perform timely servicing of multi-family housing projects we reviewed in the Midwest Region, which is essential to ensure that borrowers provided rental residents with safe and sanitary housing.
We determined that USDA has not fully implemented cybersecurity and governance controls within Artificial Intelligence systems in compliance with federal standards, leaving the agency at risk of data breaches or reputational harm.
We determined that the Forest Service did not fully comply with Federal laws and regulations when executing the pre-award contracting process for the sampled contracts from November 15, 2021, to March 31, 2025, resulting in more than $48.2 million in unsupported costs.