Reports - Top Management Challenges

OIG contracted an Independent Public Accounting firm to review the Rural Utilities Service’s process for evaluating and prioritizing the level of service provided for its broadband program, as well as how the current mapping software addresses previously identified programming errors.

OIG reviewed the Agricultural Marketing Service’s monitoring over grantees’ use of funds within the Farm and Food Workers Relief Grant Program.

This report presents the results of the System and Organization Controls 1 Type 2 examination conducted in accordance with relevant attestation standards established by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants for the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) description of its data center hosting and security systems used to process user entities’ transactions throughout the period October 1, 2024, to June 30, 2025.

This report presents the results of the System and Organization Controls 1 Type 2 examination conducted in accordance with relevant attestation standards established by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants for the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Finance Center (NFC) description of its payroll and personnel systems used to process user entities payroll and human resource transactions throughout the period October 1, 2024 to June 30, 2025.

OIG performed agreed-upon procedures to assess information reported to OPM by USDA’s NFC.

This report presents the results of the System and Organization Controls 1 Type 2 examination conducted in accordance with relevant attestation standards established by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants for the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Financial Management Service (FMS) description of its financial systems used to process user entities financial transactions throughout the period October 1, 2024, to June 30, 2025.

The Office of Inspector General performed an audit of IRA—Discrimination Financial Assistance Program (DFAP) to evaluate USDA’s internal controls related to consistent and accurate reviews of applications for assistance and proper disbursements of DFAP. Note: This report contains sensitive content that is being withheld from public release. Any monetary impact amounts redacted from this report are not reflected in monetary totals.

This report provides the results of Objective 1, in which we determined whether the State of Illinois used FNS SNAP administrative funds to provide benefits to participants.

This report provides the results of Objective 1, in which we determined whether the State of California used FNS SNAP administrative funds to provide benefits to participants.