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Audit of Unemployment Insurance Self-Certification Fraud Detection under the Pandemic Unemployment

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A memorandum dated May 5, 2020 from Elliot P. Lewis, Assistant Inspector General for Audit at the U.S. Department of Labor Office of Inspector General, to John P. Pallasch, Acting Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training. It announces an audit of the self-certification process used by States to determine claimant eligibility, focusing on States in the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance Program and the actions taken to deter and detect fraud relating to self-certifications. The office asks for an entrance conference the week of May 11, 2020. It names Dwight Gates, Audit Director, as the contact and copies officials including Gay M. Gilbert and Julie Cerruti.

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U.S. Department of Labor             Office of Inspector General
                                     Washington, D.C. 20210




May 5, 2020



MEMORANDUM FOR:             JOHN P. PALLASCH
                            Acting Assistant Secretary
                             for Employment and Training




FROM:                       ELLIOT P. LEWIS
                            Assistant Inspector General
                             for Audit

SUBJECT:                    Audit of Unemployment Insurance Self-Certification
                            Fraud Detection under the Pandemic Unemployment
                            Assistance Program

Please be advised the Office of Inspector General is initiating an audit of the self-
certification process used by States to determine claimant eligibility. The audit
will focus on States participating in the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance
Program and the actions taken to deter and detect fraud relating to self-
certifications.

We will contact your audit liaison to schedule an entrance conference to discuss
the audit’s objective, scope, and methodology. Due to the urgency of this work,
we would like to have an entrance conference the week of May 11, 2020, and
plan to begin work immediately after the entrance conference. We would
appreciate your notifying appropriate agency officials of our plans.

If you have any questions, please contact Dwight Gates, Audit Director, at
(678) 637-4659.

cc:    Gay M. Gilbert, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary, ETA
       Jim Garner, Acting Administrator, ETA Office of Unemployment Insurance
       Greg Hitchcock, Special Assistant, ETA Office of Grants Management
       Julie Cerruti, ETA Audit Liaison

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