Individual Disaster Assistance Programs - Framework for Fraud Prevention, Detection, and Prosecution

GuidanceGovernment Accountability Office (GAO)Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity
Information Security

Highlights of GAO-06-954T, a testimony before the Subcommittee on Management, Integration, and Oversight, Committee on Homeland Security, U.S. House of Representatives

Why GAO Did This Study
Federal agencies spend billions of dollars annually to aid victims of natural and other disasters and acts of terrorism. Managers of federal disaster assistance programs face a dual challenge-delivering aid as quickly as possible while at the same time ensuring that relief payments go only to those who are truly in need. Due to the very nature of the government's need to quickly provide assistance to disaster victims, federal disaster relief programs are vulnerable to significant risk of improper payments and fraudulent activities.

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