Report to Congress: October 1, 2023 through March 31, 2024

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A page headed Report to Congress: October 1, 2023 through March 31, 2024, highlighting PRAC accomplishments in that period. It says the Pandemic Analytics Center of Excellence (PACE) has provided investigative support to more than 47 federal law enforcement and OIG partners on over 780 pandemic-related investigations with an estimated potential fraud loss of $2.03 billion. It says the Fraud Task Force, composed of over 50 agents from 16 OIGs, has produced 12 sentencings and 45 years of prison time, with 69 subjects charged to date, and $11 million in restitution. The page notes the PRAC's sunset date of September 2025 and encourages Congress to sustain the PRAC analytics platform.

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Report to Congress: October 1, 2023 through March 31, 2024

We're pleased to present the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee's (PRAC) Semiannual Report to Congress , which highlights our accomplishments between October 1, 2023, and March 31, 2024. It has now been more than four years since the PRAC’s creation, and we, along with our Office of Inspector General (OIG) partners, remain committed to the mission of effectively overseeing more than $5 trillion in federal pandemic relief funds.

As we approach the PRAC's sunset date of September 2025, we also look to the future by encouraging Congress to sustain PRAC’s analytics platform. This good-government initiative has provided deep program insights, sophisticated data analytics tools, and innovative oversight models that have provided an unbeatable return on investment for detecting and preventing fraud, waste, and abuse. We believe the time is now to preserve these PRAC innovations and apply these fraud prevention and detection tools to all federal spending.

Here’s a summary of our accomplishments from this time period.

Highlights from the report

1. Investigations supported by the PACE

As of March 2024, the Pandemic Analytics Center of Excellence (PACE) has provided investigative support to more than 47 federal law enforcement and OIG partners on over 780 pandemic-related investigations with an estimated potential fraud loss of $2.03 billion.

2. PRAC Fraud Task Force

The work of the task force, composed of over 50 agents from 16 OIGs, has produced 12 sentencings and 45 years of prison time, with 69 subjects charged to date. The task force has also yielded $11 million in restitution to the government and $4 million in forfeitures and seizures.

3. Public-facing events

In October 2023, we hosted a webinar on identity fraud . Over 150 people attended to hear our panel of experts discuss the increase in identity fraud during the pandemic, the victim experience, and how government can improve the identity fraud redress process.

4. Website survey

We continue to make updates and improve the user experience on this website. This reporting period, we’ve collected feedback via our customer satisfaction survey from over 3,000 participants. On a scale of 1-5, 5 being the highest, over 60 percent of our users rate the site a 4 or higher. We will continue to make improvements based on feedback we receive.

5. PRAC staff speaking engagements

PRAC leaders and staff participated in eight speaking engagements this reporting period. They addressed such topics as using data analytics to detect fraud, waste, and abuse; the importance and necessity of data sharing across government entities; and details on our work with Coronavirus Relief Fund (CRF) data .

"With 15 months remaining until our sunset in 2025, we encourage Congress to maintain the valuable fraud-fighting tools of our data analytics center and expand its jurisdiction beyond pandemic relief funds. That way, our insights from the pandemic will better protect the integrity of federal programs, safeguard taxpayer dollars, and ensure federal spending reaches those it is intended to help–not only in a crisis, but every day."

Michael E. Horowitz, PRAC Chair

We collected and shared real-life examples of agile oversight in action.

We gathered leading practices and lessons learned from teams experienced in agile oversight and published them in our webinar recap report: Agile Oversight in a Time of Crisis . What is agile oversight and when should you use it? Where do you begin? Read more about putting agile oversight into practice and make quick pivots possible when creating audits, evaluations, and other products.

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We focused on the impact of pandemic relief programs on six communities across the country.

To truly understand how the pandemic impacted people on the ground across the country, you have to get out into communities—both big and small, rural, urban and suburban—to appreciate the unique circumstances Americans faced. We did just that, examining six communities across the U.S. Read more about the six communities’ shared experiences in the full report .

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