Reports - Other

The Department of Agriculture (USDA) is responsible for adhering to privacy laws and regulations pertaining to the storage and use of personally identifiable information (PII) of its customers and employees. The Office of Inspector General performed this audit of agency systems to provide an overall assessment of the encryption controls in place. We assessed seven USDA agencies’ encryption security posture to determine if they protected and encrypted PII data appropriately.

The Office of Inspector General performed this audit of agency systems to provide an overall assessment of the encryption controls in place.

OIG reviewed RMA’s Annual Forage insurance plan and followed up on recommendations from two prior audit reports on the Pasture, Rangeland, and Forage insurance plan.

The Office of Inspector General (OIG) completed a final action verification of all five recommendations in our September 30, 2016, U.S. Meat Animal Research Center Review Audit Report, 02007-0001-31. Final action verification determines whether the final action documentation the agency provides to the Office of the Chief Financial Officer (OCFO) supports the agency’s management decision reached with OIG.1, 2 Our objective was to determine whether the documentation ARS provided to OCFO was sufficient to close the recommendations made in Audit Report 02007-0001-31.

We reviewed whether RUS rural infrastructure programs ensured that Native American communities were informed of and appropriately received communityspecific benefits.

OIG reviewed FSA’s compliance with income verification process requirements and NRCS’ recovery of improper payments identified as a result of that process.