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Office of Inspector General

Notification: Audit of Salary Overpayment and Debt Forgiveness Waiver (2nd notification)

Project #OA-FY18-0084, June 15, 2018

The OIG plans to determine whether the agency is properly forgiving debts owed by its employees through its waiver or compromise process and to determine the activities that are causing salary overpayments.

This is the 2nd notification of this project, the initial notification is also available.

UPDATE: This project resulted in a final report.

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Project Notification (PDF)(2 pp, 45 K)

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