current using data analytics to prevent improper payments include the cms' fraud prevention system dols integrity center for excellence. improper payments remains a high priority to this administration. although progress has been made, much more remains to be done and we need your help. we look forward to working with the congress to pass the president's '16 budget and we expect additional progress as we execute against our new improper payments guidance during this fiscal year. thank you for giving me the opportunity to testify. i look forward to your questions. >> thank you mr. mader. our knicks with is miss davis, from the government aptable office. >> chairman johnson, members of the committee. thank you for the opportunity to be here today to discuss improper payments and the use of death data to prevent payments to deceased individuals flint. fiscal year 2014, federal agencies estimated that improper payments totaled $124.7 billion. this represents a significant increase of almost $19 billion from the fiscal year 2013 estimate. the increase can be attributed primarily to increased

lately a fence jumper, sourc tell us the director wi ree a budget increase of a quarter of a billion dol nar at least in pa because it's a presidenti electi year and candidates ud protection. no mmt yr the agency, but maryland congressman elijah cummingsho helps oversee the secret service tells us the agency is starved for resources and that he would support a funding increase. doreen? >> scott cfar thank you. >>> a departnt of state counterterrori expert who was charged in virginia last no with soliciting x from a minor is now facing new charges. daniel rosen i accused of videotaping me without their knowledge as they undressed. news4's mark es has the latest on the allegations from d.c. superior court. hi mark. >> reporter: hey, doreen. that's right. rose row just left d.c. superior court about an hour ago. and police say that he videotaped re than 24 women and many of the videos that they found on his phone date back to the summer of 2013. and many of those victims are his neighbo. daniel ros l courthouse with his wife by his side, refusing to sp reporters. in court rosen told the jud

and perhaps no workers because of what dol and dhs have done here. >> by the way, sir did you see the letter we sent you dated yesterday? >> dated yesterday? i've got to be pretty good. i mean, it is only 10:30 on the morning after the letter was sent. >> that's why i asked. >> let me ask, prior to this recent dhs shutdown, the -- you know, the 33,000 cap, but dhs said, okay we know there are going to be rejections so we'll accept 40,000, 50,000 applications knowing some will be rejected. but this year they're only accepting 33,000. i guess, what happens if some are rejected? i mean, the whole problem is you've got the 120-day time frame. so you've already got a short time frame. if dhs hits this cap at 33,000, rejects, you know, 7,000 or 8,000, this is probably going to happen then you've delayed the ability of the employers to apply for their season. these are all seasonal businesses. why did the dhs change that policy? >> it sounds like it was a judgment of citizenship and immigration services. i would be happy to find out for you, sir. >> okay. i know i'll get an answer somewhere

at the presence direction dol immediately instituted the department what process to review and update all rules and practices in which marital status is irrelevant consideration. so, for example, under the family and medical leave act fml i can we have dated are will do so that legally married same-sex couples have the same leave rights as opposite sex couples. the basic premise of the fln they is that no one should have to choose between the job security they need and taking time off to care for themselves or a loved one. this update to the fln may build on her early work at dol to assure that lgbt comes can provide caregiving under fln may. but wage and hour division issued guidance clarifying that a son or daughter includes a child whom an employee stands in local printers but this is a port for lgbt families and other families who may not have a biological or legal relationship with a partner's child. also following windsor we make changes to policies under the employment retirement income secured at the federal employees federal compensation act come and several other workers com

and perhaps no workers because of what dol and dhs have done here. >> by the way, sir, did you see thent you dated yesterday? >> dated yesterday? i've got to be pretty good. i mean, it is only 10:30 on the morning after the letter was sent. >> that's why i asked. >> let me ask, prior to this recent dhs shutdown, the -- you know, the 33,000 cap, but dhs said, okay, we know there are going to be rejections so we'll accept 40,000, 50,000 applications knowing some will be rejected. but this year they're only accepting 33,000. i guess, what happens if some are rejected? i mean, the whole problem is, you've got the 120-day time frame. so you've already got a short time frame. if dhs hits this cap at 33,000, rejects, you know, 7,000 or 8,000, this is probably going to happen, then you've delayed the ability of the employers to apply for their season. these are all seasonal businesses. why did the dhs change that policy? >> it sounds like it was a judgment of citizenship and immigration services. i would be happy to find out for you, sir. >> okay. i know i'll get an answer somewhere along the

and then community banks, and if we have time, insurance standards and maybe what's going on with the dol. but my local foundation the columbus foundation, just put out a report that said 145,000 people in central ohio in my area have been left out of this economic recovery because they've given up looking for work. they don't have the skills they need, there is a real skill gap. if you extrapolate that across the country that means there's 11 million people suffering today every day even though the state unemployment rates are down to u6. it still says 11 so that's a big number. i hope you're focusing today on those people that are left out. i'm not going to ask for comment on that but i hope and pray you're focused on that because these are great american people who are left out of our recovery and i hope you'll spend a little time thinking about them. i do want to follow up on a question mr. lucas brought up, or questions, about the plight of community banks. i had a recent conversation with a lady named linda. she's shopping for a house and her local community bank stopped offering mo

there are program integrity initiatives across dol and i think they have demonstrated a pilot program with the states because recognizing that unemployment insurance is a block to the state but they've demonstrated using new york state as the key to doing some very creative analytics. that was the top six. we could provide a few more for the record. but those are i think going back to the senator's comment i think that if there was one thing i could ask for, maybe two, is get to treasure the full death master file because that is the place that we are running off of the civilian payments past and having the most accurate set of data would be the real benefit. that's the one ask. the other ask and i strongly believe that in order to save money we need to make an investment and the investment in those half a dozen or so program integrities i believe and i think the administration strongly believes that we'll see benefits in driving not only the rate but the total amount of improper payments down if we're allowed to make those types of enhancements enhancements. >> okay. thank you. any c

of the contaminated sites and further to that point, what is the proposal or what is the plan within dol to really facilitate and move forward with speeding up and funding the contamination for the cleanup on these -- on these native lands. >> senator, i'll have to get back to you on the timing. i'm want exactly sure. i had a broad update from the blm that they are assessing the sites, and i know they have been prioritizing those. some are native conveyances and some are not. they're also in the process of identifying potentially responsible parties that could be responsible for the cleanup. if there is a responsible party, that's where we go first as opposed to the federal treasury. so i will need to get back to you as to when the list will be updated and when we will get back to specifics, if that's okay. >> that is appreciated and we do have language within the current spending authorization that requires the department to report by june of this year about the comprehensive inventory and what the plan is but i think you sense the priority when you were up in alaska in addition to the

of the contaminated sites and further to that point, what is the proposal or what is the plan within dol to really facilitate and move forward with speeding up a

on february 26th of 2015 the director of o & b sent letters to agency heads for four organizations, dol, hhs ssa and treasury that have the largest priority programs. this direction requires the early implementation of the appendix requirements that i just mentioned by april 30th of this year many the direction further requires that each agency conduct the following analysis and corrective action plan for each program in question. two, review new categories for reporting improper payments, and three, provide analysis linking the agency efforts and establishing internal controls to the internal controls that they have for improper payments. under this administration, we have focused on the increased use of technology and sharing data to address improper payments. the effective use of data analystics provides insight into the methods and improving the performance and decision making capability. examples of agencies currently using data analytics to prevent improper payments -- ool's integrity center for excellence. improper payments remains a high priority to this administration progress