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Report Finds Defense Department Paid Millions To Incorrect Accounts
Washington, D.C. (AHN) – A new CNN report reveals the Department of Defense may have paid more than $15 million into invalid civilian employee accounts over the course a six-year period.
An investigative review by auditors from the Inspector-General uncovered that the Defense Department was paying into accounts with invalid Social Security numbers and some of the employees’ birth dates would place them under the legal age to work. Further troubling news is investigators found that multiple employee wages were deposited into a single account.
Albeit the Defense Civilian Pay System (DCPS) charged with payroll management for the department’s 7.3 million civilian employees, was responsible for more than $148 billion in wages over the six-year period in question. The problems found by the Inspector-General investigators pertaining to deposits between January 2002 and April 2008 raise serious questions about oversight, vetting, and simple data entry of employee information at the department.
The investigators found problems with invalid Social Security numbers that by most accounts are not too difficult to identify, including some Social Security numbers containing all zeros in one section.
Auditors found $905,000 of wages paid to deceased employees because the DCPS “did not include procedures to identify deceased employees and recover improper payments.” In one instance an employee’s recorded date of death was March 1948, yet the account still had $11,613 in 2002.
In an attempt to stave off future deposit irregularities the department overseeing payroll is implementing new measures to identify and rectify problem accounts and prevent future incorrect deposits.
Read more: http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7015828659#ixzz0LeV82dIL
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