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+{"gao_id": "GAO-23-106160", "published": "2023-09-27T12:00:00Z", "released": "2023-10-27T08:00:00Z", "summary": "Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and Palau receive millions of dollars in U.S. grants from federal agencies. Each country must get an annual audit of its use of these funds. Within 6 months, the granting agency must decide how the country should address any audit findings\u2014including questions about grant spending. Then the agency must work with the country to resolve these questions. The Departments of Health...", "title": "Freely Associated States: Agencies Should Enhance Procedures to Address Millions of Dollars in Questionable Spending", "topics": ["Auditing and Financial Management", "Freely associated states", "Grant awards", "Single audits", "Compliance oversight", "Health care", "Human capital management", "Corrective action", "Federal spending", "Grant programs", "Audit reports"], "type": "reports-testimonies", "url": "https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-23-106160", "versions": [{"title": "Highlights Page (1 page)", "url": "https://www.gao.gov/assets/d23106160HIGH.pdf"}, {"title": "Full Report (26 pages)", "url": "https://www.gao.gov/assets/d23106160.pdf"}, {"title": "Accessible PDF (34 pages)", "url": "https://www.gao.gov/assets/870/861662.pdf"}]}

data/2023-09-29/GAO-23-105080.json

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+{"gao_id": "GAO-23-105080", "published": "2023-09-29T12:00:00Z", "released": "2023-10-27T08:00:00Z", "summary": "We examined \"church plans\"\u2014retirement plans sponsored by religious organizations such as denominations, hospitals, or schools. Church plans are exempt from many federal retirement plan requirements, such as ensuring enough money will be available in the plan to pay benefits. These plans generally are ineligible for federal insurance, but we found some that may be paying premiums for it anyway. We recommended that the Pension Benefit...", "title": "Retirement Plans: Improved Communication Needed on Church Plan Eligibility for Federal Insurance Coverage", "topics": ["Bankruptcy", "Retirement plans", "Insurance coverage", "Collective bargaining agreements", "Elections", "Defined contribution plans", "Retirement Security", "Churches", "Tax exemptions", "Defined benefit pension plans", "Beneficiaries"], "type": "reports-testimonies", "url": "https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-23-105080", "versions": [{"title": "Highlights Page (1 page)", "url": "https://www.gao.gov/assets/d23105080high.pdf"}, {"title": "Full Report (53 pages)", "url": "https://www.gao.gov/assets/d23105080.pdf"}, {"title": "Accessible PDF (60 pages)", "url": "https://www.gao.gov/assets/870/861999.pdf"}]}

data/2023-11-02/GAO-24-107090.json

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+{"gao_id": "GAO-24-107090", "published": "2023-11-02T12:00:00Z", "released": "2023-10-27T08:00:00Z", "summary": "Federal employees who are whistleblowers can help fight fraud, waste, and abuse, so laws protect them from retaliation, such as demotion and firing. We're looking into whistleblower retaliation cases at the Department of Veterans Affairs. This testimony covers our prior and ongoing work. Amid an uptick in all cases reported to the VA, whistleblower retaliation cases have increased from 577 in FY 2020 to 736...", "title": "VA Whistleblowers: Retaliation Claim Investigations and Settlement Agreements [Reissued with revisions on Oct. 27, 2023]", "topics": ["Case management", "Veterans affairs", "Special counsel", "Merit systems", "Compliance oversight", "Whistleblowers", "Justice and Law Enforcement", "Government employees", "Whistleblower protection", "Criminal investigations", "Settlement agreement"], "type": "reports-testimonies", "url": "https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-24-107090", "versions": [{"title": "Highlights Page (1 page)", "url": "https://www.gao.gov/assets/d23107090high.pdf"}, {"title": "Full Report (19 pages)", "url": "https://www.gao.gov/assets/d23107090.pdf"}]}