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Department <strong>of</strong> Defense Agency Financial Report for FY <strong>2012</strong><br />

• Travel Pay examiner training programs, based on post-payment review findings and<br />

recommendations, have been implemented.<br />

• Pre-payment validations and cross checks have been implemented to ensure the traveler<br />

was not previously reimbursed for the same trip, therefore avoiding a duplicate<br />

payment.<br />

• WinIATS fielded a system update containing edits for the listing <strong>of</strong> invalid social security<br />

numbers (SSN), provided by the Social Security Administration, to mitigate invalid<br />

SSNs.<br />

USACE Travel Pay. As shown in<br />

Figure A-6, USACE projects 0.06 percent<br />

<strong>of</strong> improper payments in Travel Pay. The<br />

USACE continues to educate travelers<br />

and travel Approving Officials (AO)<br />

through required training, as well as<br />

refresher training for seasoned travelers<br />

and approving <strong>of</strong>ficials. Additionally, all<br />

AOs are required to complete Fiscal Law<br />

training and the refresher course, as<br />

required, to maintain their certification<br />

eligibility<br />

The USACE Finance Center (UFC) also<br />

performs a 100 percent audit <strong>of</strong> all airline<br />

credits issued against traveler’s<br />

individually billed travel card accounts to<br />

ensure airline credits, issued as a result<br />

<strong>of</strong> flight changes, are properly recouped.<br />

Root Causes. Travel pay errors generally<br />

occur for two reasons:<br />

• Travelers make mistakes when completing their travel vouchers; and/or<br />

• AOs fail to properly review travel vouchers before approval.<br />

A-60<br />

Figure A-6. Improper Payment Rate –<br />

USACE Travel Pay<br />

1.50%<br />

1.00%<br />

0.50%<br />

0.00%<br />

B10-42<br />

Corrective Action. When improper payments are identified, the UFC notifies the parties<br />

involved with the payments to determine the circumstances surrounding the error and to<br />

assist them in identifying business process improvements to prevent future recurrences.<br />

DFAS Commercial Pay. In order to be fully compliant with IPERA, in FY <strong>2012</strong> DFAS began<br />

statistically sampling the contract and vendor pay systems to further ensure proper<br />

identification and recovery <strong>of</strong> improper payments and to publish a statistically valid<br />

improper payment estimate for Commercial Pay. The random review included DFAS<br />

computed payments entitled in the MOCAS contract payment system, the DFAS legacy<br />

commercial pay systems, and the Service Component ERPs. Fiscal Year <strong>2012</strong> is the first<br />

<strong>year</strong> that DFAS will <strong>report</strong> improper payments identified in the ERP systems.<br />

As shown in Figure A-7, based on statistical sampling methods the FY <strong>2012</strong> estimated<br />

improper payment rate is 0.02 percent for total commercial payments; the dollar amount is<br />

0.00%<br />

1.00%<br />

FY <strong>2012</strong> Target 1.00%<br />

FY 2010 FY 2011 FY <strong>2012</strong> FY 2013<br />

Target<br />

0.04% 0.045% 0.045% 0.045%<br />

FY 2014<br />

Target<br />

FY 2015<br />

Target<br />

Addendum A

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