Peace Corps
Peace Corps is a small agency operating under one program. Peace Corps does not have activities that are susceptible to the threshold limits for significant improper payments exceeding 1.5% of all activity disbursements made during the fiscal year reported. The identified improper payments were 0.028% of our total agency FY25 outlays.
Peace Corps performs a combination of invoice review, post-audit verification, and
sampling to ensure improper payments are prevented, identified, and recovered
whenever feasible. Peace Corps' recovery rate in FY25 was 86%. Peace Corps
certifying officers review all invoices USDE 2,500 and above and perform weekly
reviews of sampled invoices (5%) below USDE 2500 for disbursements and monthly review of all purchase card transactions. Any payments identified as improper are logged and monitored quarterly for recovery steps. Follow up continues until recovery is complete. If recovery is not possible, Peace Corps engages with Treasury CRS to assist if internal efforts are unsuccessful. As a last resort, Peace Corps writes off debts that are deemed uncollectable or not in the best interest of the agency. Peace Corps' agency compliance status is compliant.
Recovery information
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%.
| Overpayment amount identified through recovery activities | $0.1 M |
| Overpayment amount recovered through recovery activities | $0.08 M |
| Recovery activities recovery rate | 85.26 % |
Why recovery audits are not cost effective in certain programs
In general, the agency does not make large payments that would be considered high risk (block grants, cost reimbursable contracts, payments in advance of performance, mandatory benefits payments). Additionally, Peace Corps performs extensive advance certification reviews on any payments in excess of $2500 as well as Post payment audits of disbursements on a continuous basis. These preventative and recovery activities are an effective and efficient way of identifying the limited instances of overpayments. Conducting a formal recovery audit would not be cost-effective.
Supplemental Information
Peace Corps uses the following DNP Portal services to verify eligibility status of
payment recipients: Online Single Search, Continuous Monitoring, and Payment
Integration. We use the following DNP Databases: OFAC Online Single Search,
Continuous Monitoring, and Payment Integration for all USD payments processed via Treasury. The Do Not Pay Working System has not reduced Improper Payments.
The Working System has not reduced/prevented improper payments:
PC has not identitied incorrect information in the Working System.
PC was found compliant during the most recent PIIA compliance review.
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Compliant programs:
- Volunteer Service
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Volunteer Service | 2024 |
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