Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Fund
The Barry Goldwater Scholarship & Excellence in Education Foundation does not currently have any programs with annual outlays over $10M. Therefore, we do not have any programs that are likely to be susceptible to significant improper payments.
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Please note: Overpayment amounts recovered are reported in the year they were recovered, not the year they were identified. Therefore it is possible in some years to have a recovery rate greater than 100%.
Conditions giving rise to improper payments identified in recovery audits, how those conditions are being resolved, and the methods used to recover those payments
Each month, our Administrative Officer conducts internal reviews of all payments for the prior accounting period. In FY25, three payments were made to the correct vendors, but for the incorrect amounts. Two of these payments needed to be partially returned to the Foundation, and one of them needed a second payment from the Foundation. The contributing factors to all three of these payments were simply human error during our busiest time of year, when we are paying over 450 Scholars. We have worked on improving the way we submit our payment requests and increased our communication with our accounting team. The two overpayments were returned to the Foundation by the vendors via ACH and the one incorrect payment was rectified by issuing an additional payment to the vendor.
Supplemental Information
The Goldwater Foundation utilizes GSA's External Services Branch for all our accounting services. All vendor data in their Multitenant Shared Application (MSA) financial system is pulled to match against the Do Not Pay system on a monthly basis on the 20th of the month. Their vendor team reviews the results retrieved from the Do Not Pay site that includes conclusive, probable and possible matches. The matches are manually analyzed and necessary actions are taken.
Daily payment files sent to Treasury for disbursement are also screened by the Do Not Pay process during this payment automation manager process with Treasury.
The Goldwater Foundation has not received any reports from GSA in the last fiscal year indicating any improper payments or awards.
The Working System has reduced/prevented improper payments:
BGSF has not identitied incorrect information in the Working System.
BGSF was found compliant during the most recent PIIA compliance review.
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Compliant programs:
- Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship Program
| Program name | When was the last improper payment risk assessment conducted? | Likely to be susceptible to significant improper payments? | Substantial changes made to the assessment methodology used for the reporting cycle |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship Program | * |
* Assessment year is not displayed because one or more of the following statements is true:
- Not required to conduct a risk assessment under the Payment Integrity Information Act of 2019,
- Already assessed for improper payment risk under a different name in a prior reporting period, and/or
- New and planning to perform a risk assessment in the future.