The leadership of Social Security's Office of Inspector General (OIG), primarily the Inspector General, Gail Ennis, has come under fire recently.
It's far from all that OIG does but they issue various reports, mostly about audits they have conducted. Here are the number of audits for recent years:
- 2020 -- 55
- 2021 -- 47
- 2022 -- 38
- 2023 (so far) -- 1
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The Project on Government Oversight recently called on President Biden to remove her as well. How much water can this boat hold before it sinks…
While the datum that only one audit has been published to date in CY23 is factually accurate, it is not the anomaly it might initially appear to be. OIG generally publishes audits later in the fiscal year. At this time in 2021, only one audit had been published as well.
I don’t work for OIG but I do work with them in my role quite often. Audits are not the only thing they do. They are also working on finishing FY reports for congress, quarterly reports and the first of the year initiatives like Slam the Scam and other OIG projects. My guess is nothing strange is happening, just that the audits are in progress and like everything else in the agency, is being released in priority order.
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That was my first thought as well. The decline though over the past few years is pretty odd though. Maybe covid disruption? It drew lots of resources from different areas.
In an FO I have seen a few (3) in the past 6 months OIG Audit listings regarding SSI underpayments ( 10-15 yrs) old. Real dead horses !!! People in need just leaving $$$ on the table through no fault of FO's.
WFH
Yeah, I’m sure it’s because they’re working from home, and not because staffing levels have declined, of because the IG decided to spend her time stalking her staff’s computer usage rather than do the work Congress assigned to her office.
Go back to your Water Buffalos meeting with that stone-age attitude, Mr. Flintstone.
The name calling always comes when you get close to the bone, ever notice that?
No. But I have noticed a trend among the ignorant masses to deflect blame for their own leadership failures (and loyal supporters of those whose poor leadership is to blame) by baselessly asserting that telework is the root of all the problems their behavior has caused.
I’ve also noticed that these same people are, in addition to being bitter and miserable people, often quite lazy, and therefore assume anyone working from home must surely be lazily shirking their responsibilities in the way they know that they themselves surely would.
I have noticed that when things are said in jest, the guilty take it seriously.
I rest my case.
Ahh the telework debate is back again. Question. Telework in the fields has been reduced by 60% since last year. Most FO employees get two telework days instead of 5. So my question is, if the issue is telework, wouldn’t service get 60% better when this happened? Has it? I guess pick one: telework was reduced and service got better, therefore it isn’t as bad as we make service out to be and the issue was clearly telework; or, service is as bad as everyone acts, telework was significantly reduced and it didn’t change anything and therefore it’s the problem. I don’t see how it can be both: service is terrible and telework is still the problem. Perhaps I’m wrong and missing something.
I just like to poke fun at WFH because the guilty always scream the loudest. The truth is that in office or pjs at home, nothing gets done anyway so who really cares? It all points to the fact that the agency is failing in the most spectacular manner and I have my marshmellows ready for Smores and Kumbaya.
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