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Transcript for: CARES Act October 2021 Report - Director's Summary

Description: GAO's Jessica Farb discusses our October 2021 report on the
federal government's continued efforts to respond to and recover from
the COVID-19 pandemic. We are making 16 new recommendations to federal
agencies in areas including fiscal relief funds for health care
providers, worker safety and health, assessing fraud risks to
unemployment insurance programs, and state and local recovery funds.
 

Related GAO Works: COVID-19: Additional Actions Needed to Improve
Accountability and Program Effectiveness of Federal Response

Released: October 2021

[ Jessica Farb - Managing Director, Health Care, sitting at a table,
speaking to the camera. ] 

[ Jessica Farb : ]

Since shortly after passage of the CARES Act in March of 2020, GAO has
been making recommendations on ways to improve the federal oversight of
the COVID-19 pandemic. In our eighth comprehensive report, we're making
16 new recommendations to improve the oversight of the trillions of
dollars of funding that have been provided so far. The government must
remain vigilant and agile to address the evolving COVID-19 pandemic and
its cascading impacts. Furthermore, the size and scope of these efforts,
from distributing funding to implementing new programs, demands strong
accountability and oversight. In the report, we look at areas such as
the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's challenges in
enforcing workplace safety and health standards during the pandemic, as
well as the potential for fraud in unemployment programs. For more
information about our report and our recommendations, visit GAO.gov.  



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For more info, check out our report GAO-22-105051 at: GAO.gov