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Unemployment Insurance: Data Indicate Substantial Levels of Fraud during the Pandemic; DOL Should Implement an Antifraud Strategy
GAO-23-105523
Jan 23, 2023
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1 Open Recommendations
Agency Affected Recommendation Status
Department of Labor The Secretary of Labor should design and implement an antifraud strategy for UI based on a fraud risk profile consistent with leading practices as provided in the Fraud Risk Framework. (Recommendation 1)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.

Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act: Additional Steps Needed to Help States Collect Complete Enrollment Information
GAO-23-104830
Nov 16, 2022
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2 Open Recommendations
Agency Affected Recommendation Status
Department of Labor The Secretary of Labor should work with the Secretary of Education to determine how to better assist WIOA core programs in collecting complete information on co-enrollment, for example, by providing additional information or technical assistance to help states better share information on participants across programs. (Recommendation 1)
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The Department of Labor (DOL) agreed with this recommendation. DOL stated that it will continue to partner with Education to emphasize the importance of collecting complete and accurate co-enrollment information and provide additional support to states. We will monitor the progress of these efforts.
Department of Education The Secretary of Education should work with the Secretary of Labor to determine how to better assist WIOA core programs in collecting complete information on co-enrollment, for example, by providing additional information or technical assistance to help states better share information on participants across programs. (Recommendation 2)
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The Department of Education agreed with this recommendation. Education said that as part of its continued partnership to promote effective WIOA implementation, it will work with the Department of Labor to determine how to better assist states in ensuring the accuracy and completeness of co-enrollment data that states report to the Department. We will monitor the progress of these efforts.

K-12 Education: Education Should Assess Its Efforts to Address Teacher Shortages
GAO-23-105180
Oct 27, 2022
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2 Open Recommendations
Agency Affected Recommendation Status
Department of Education The Secretary of Education should build on the department's efforts to raise public awareness about the value of teachers by developing and including in its Elevating Teachers strategy time frames, milestones, and performance measures to gauge results. (Recommendation 1)
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Education neither agreed nor disagreed with this recommendation. We will monitor the agency's progress to address this recommendation.
Department of Education The Secretary of Education should direct Federal Student Aid and the Offices of Elementary and Secondary Education and Special Education and Rehabilitative Services to collect resources that address the key challenges contributing to teacher shortages, and share those resources with states and school districts in an easily accessible manner to help them address specific recruitment and retention challenges. (Recommendation 2)
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Education neither agreed nor disagreed with this recommendation. We will monitor the agency's progress to address this recommendation.

Workplace Safety and Health: Actions Needed to Improve Reporting of Summary Injury and Illness Data
GAO-21-122
Feb 18, 2021
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1 Open Recommendations
1 Priority
Agency Affected Recommendation Status
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Priority Rec.
This is a priority recommendation.
The Secretary of Labor should evaluate OSHA's current procedures for ensuring that employers electronically report their annual 300A injury and illness data to OSHA when required and implement a plan to remediate identified deficiencies. This should include its efforts related to: (1) encouraging employers to comply with the 300A reporting requirement; and (2) citing employers for non-compliance with this reporting requirement. (Recommendation 1)
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OSHA continues to take steps to encourage employers required to submit 300A injury and illness data to do so, and to address non-compliance when employers do not. However, it is not clear the extent to which these current and planned actions will substantially result in OSHA receiving these data. As we described in our report, OSHA is less likely to inspect employers who do not report 300A data. As a result, employers with the highest injury and illness rates have an incentive to avoid reporting 300A data. We suggested that OSHA evaluate other possible procedures for issuing citations that do not necessitate conducting on-site inspections. We will close this recommendation when OSHA: 1) regularly takes enforcement action against employers who are required to submit these data, but do not, and 2) shows that compliance with 300A reporting has substantially improved.
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