• Treasury Department Payment Screening

  • The U.S. Treasury Department prevented nearly $99 million in federal payments from being sent to individuals identified as deceased.
  • A new verification system reviewed 885 million federal payments totaling $2.77 trillion and flagged approximately 4,900 payments connected to deceased recipients.
  • This demonstrates the effectiveness of enhanced fraud detection and payment verification systems.

• Government Fraud and Improper Payments

  • Estimates that federal improper payments could reach up to $500 billion annually, citing this as evidence of widespread waste and fraud in government programs.
  • Reducing improper payments could lower taxpayer burden and reduce government deficits.

• Policy and Legislative Changes

  • Expanded use of the Treasury's "Do Not Pay" system and access to the Social Security Administration's death records.
  • Ending Improper Payments to Deceased People Act, which allegedly strengthened the government's ability to identify payments tied to deceased beneficiaries.

• Medicaid Fraud Investigations

  • HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz.
  • The administration is said to have deferred more than $1 billion in Medicaid payments:
    • Approximately $869.7 million to California.
    • Approximately $199 million to Minnesota.
  • These payments were flagged as high-risk or insufficiently documented and are being withheld pending further verification.

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