The Labor Department’s inspector general is looking at $204 million spent to modernize the underlying technology for state unemployment insurance systems.

As the 119th Congress seeks to reduce government spending through reconciliation, talk of Medicaid reductions has raised concerns about vulnerable populations losing Medicaid coverage. But simply ...

A new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report reveals that improper federal spending surged to $186 billion in 2025.

The improper payment rate for fiscal year 2024 was 3.97%. The last time that number dipped below 4% was in 2013. The Biden White House is touting reductions in agencies’ improper payments, as the ...

The Trump administration has released new estimates on improper payments in key government insurance programs. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) said late Thursday that the estimated ...

The federal government spent a shocking $186 billion on "improper payments" in the last fiscal year, marking an increase in ...

A new report finds that the federal government made nearly $236 billion in improper payments across entitlement programs last year, with Medicare and Medicaid a large source of payment errors. The ...

(NEXSTAR) – The Social Security Administration (SSA) is wrestling with a “record-breaking backlog” of cases that has led to roughly $1.1 billion in improper payments, according to a new report by the ...