Waste, Fraud, and Abuse in Agency Travel Card Programs

Abstract

Since the enactment of the Travel and Transportation Reform Act (TTRA) of 1998 (P.L. 105-264), which required federal employees to use travel charge cards to pay for the expenses of official government travel, the dollar volume of travel card transactions has increased significantly, growing from $4.39 billion in FY1999 to $8.93 billion in FY2009. While the purpose of mandating the use of travel cards was to reduce costs and improve managerial oversight of employee travel expenditures, audits of agency travel card programs conducted since the enactment of the TTRA have found varying degrees of waste, fraud, and abuse at a number of agencies. These findings indicated systemic weaknesses in agency travel card management policies and practicescollectively referred to as internal controlsthat cost the government millions of dollars annually

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 25, 2011
Accession Number
AD1172131

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  • Garrett Hatch

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