On June 14, the Government Accountability Office released its 13th annual report, “Additional Opportunities to Reduce Fragmentation, Overlap, and Duplication and Achieve Billions of Dollars in Financial Benefits.” You can view the report here. GAO uses this report to spotlight “opportunities to reduce fragmentation, overlap, and duplication in federal programs—as well as chances to save money and increase revenue.”

The GAO provides Congress, the heads of executive agencies, and the public, with timely, fact-based, non-partisan information that can be used to improve government and save taxpayers billions of dollars. It celebrated 100 years of service to the country in 2021.

In the current report, GAO identified 100 new matters for consideration by Congress and recommendations to agencies to assist. It reports on previous action in areas it has identified has yielded about $600 billion in cost savings and revenue increases. GAO indicates the Office of Personnel Management could save hundreds of millions of dollars or more annually by implementing a monitoring mechanism to identify and remove ineligible family members from the Federal Employees Health Benefits program.

To read this and other proposals in the report, click here.