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  • FEMA Paid Employees Over the Annual Premium Pay Cap

    Executive Summary

    We found that FEMA overpaid its employees because it mistakenly believed the Department’s payroll provider had an automated control to prevent payments over the annual cap, and because it did not follow its own premium pay policy. We also found that FEMA has no effective policy or practice to determine the Fair Labor Standards Act status of FEMA employees during disaster deployments, which also contributed to this issue. Since discovering the overpayments, FEMA has been working to calculate how many people were overpaid, but it cannot finish that analysis until it addresses a number of outstanding questions.

    Report Number
    OIG-18-71
    Issue Date
    Document File
    DHS Agency
    Oversight Area
    Fiscal Year
    2018