Report to Congress: October 1, 2024 through March 31, 2025

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A page headed Report to Congress: October 1, 2024 through March 31, 2025, highlighting PRAC accomplishments in that period, five years after the PRAC was created. It says the PACE developed FLARE (Fraud Learning and Anomaly Recognition Engine), a proof-of-concept machine learning-based system that identifies high-risk entities that warrant further review. It says the PACE gave investigative support to more than 49 law enforcement and OIG partners on more than 1,100 pandemic-related investigations with a potential fraud loss of $2.43 billion. The Fraud Task Force is credited with 57 sentencings, 101 years of prison time, 117 subjects charged and approximately $20 million in restitution. The page urges Congress to sustain the PRAC's capabilities past the sunset scheduled for September 2025.

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Report to Congress: October 1, 2024 through March 31, 2025

We're pleased to present the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee's (PRAC) Semiannual Report to Congress , which highlights our accomplishments between October 1, 2024 and March 31, 2025. It's been five 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 insights to programs, sophisticated data analytics tools, and innovative oversight models with 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.

Read the letter from Michael E. Horowitz, PRAC Chair, in our report and learn about our accomplishments.

Highlights from the report

1. PACE Success

Our Pandemic Analytics Center of Excellence (PACE) developed FLARE (Fraud Learning and Anomaly Recognition Engine), a proof-of-concept machine learning-based system that identifies high-risk entities that warrant further review.

2. Investigating Fraud

The PACE has provided investigative support to more than 49 law enforcement and OIG partners on more than 1,100 pandemic-related investigations with over 23,500 subjects and a potential fraud loss of $2.43 billion.

3. PRAC Fraud Task Force

Our task force, including over 50 agents from 16 OIGs, has produced 57 sentencings and 101 years of prison time, with 117 subjects charged to date, and has also yielded approximately $20 million in restitution to the government.

4. Promoting Transparency

We launched our AI tool – a first for the IG community – that allows users to ask questions about designing and implementing federal programs to prevent fraud.

5. Public Outreach

In testimony on March 11, 2025 , the PRAC Executive Director urged Congress to sustain the PRAC’s capabilities past the scheduled sunset in September 2025 and to expand its jurisdiction to all federal spending.

"We encourage Congress to maintain the valuable fraud-fighting tools of our data analytics center and expand its jurisdiction beyond pandemic relief funds. Without it, the federal government will no longer have an entity capable of proactively conducting cross-program, cross-agency analysis to help prevent improper payments in high-risk programs."

Michael E. Horowitz, PRAC Chair

We published Chapters 3 and 4 of the Blueprint for Enhanced Program Integrity.

This five-chapter research project shares lessons learned and best practices to help strengthen federal programs. Chapter 3 focuses on helping the oversight community and policymakers prevent and detect fraud in emergency and non-emergency programs. Chapter 4 examines the whole-of-government approach—how federal, state, and local governments worked together to oversee the more than $5 trillion in pandemic relief funding.

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We issued reports on the impact of pandemic relief programs in two communities.

The reports on two of the six locations we had visited -- Marion County, GA and White Earth Nation Reservation located in Minnesota -- focused on the specific programs and subprograms that provided emergency response funding in each of the locations.

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