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Audits

The Office of the Inspector General’s (OIG) Office of Audits provides objective oversight and appraisal of the Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) responsibilities to assure the integrity, efficiency, and effectiveness of the agency’s programs and services.  Specifically, the OIG conducts comprehensive and independent audits of OPM programs, operations and contractors.  The Office of Audits assists the Director and Congress by providing credibility to the information reported by the agency and providing information to improve accountability and facilitate decision-making. 

The Office of Audits core responsibility is auditing the activities of OPM contractors who underwrite and provide health and life insurance benefits to federal employees and annuitants, and their dependents and survivors, through the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP) and the Federal Employees’ Group Life Insurance Program.  There are approximately 260 insurance carriers participating in these programs with annual premium payments that exceed $35 billion.  In addition, we conduct performance audits of the Retirement Program, with assets over $750 billion and whose monthly payments to approximately 2.5 million annuitants and survivors exceed $65 billion annually.

The Office of Audits also conducts a wide range of audit activity covering other OPM programs and administrative operations.  This activity includes such diverse areas as financial statement audits required by the Chief Financial Officers Act; audits of agency compliance with laws and regulations; information systems audits at health insurance carriers and at OPM; audits of Pharmacy Benefit Managers; audits of the Long Term Care Insurance Program; audits of Federal Employee Dental and Vision Insurance Program carriers; and performance audits of OPM programs that involve the range of the agency’s responsibilities, including revolving fund activities such as background investigations.

The office also audits local organizations that administer the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC).  There are approximately 240 local CFC’s with over $275 million in annual pledges.

Twice a year the OIG prepares a semi-annual report highlighting our audits, as well as investigations and administrative sanctions.  These reports can be found on our website.

The majority of the audit staff is located at OPM headquarters in Washington, D.C.  We also have field offices in Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh, and Jacksonville, Florida.  These offices are staffed primarily with auditors who conduct audits of the FEHBP.