TANF and Child Care Programs: HHS Lacks Adequate Information to Assess Risk and Assist States in Managing Improper Payments

June 2004 TANF and Child Care Programs: HHS Lacks Adequate Information to Assess Risk and Assist States in Managing Improper Payments The 16 states in GAO's review reported using various strategies and tools to manage improper payments, but their efforts were uneven. Almost all the states in the review reported that they performed some activities to assess whether their programs were at risk of improper payments. These activities, however, did not always cover all payments that could be at risk, focusing, for instance, on cash welfare payments but not on payments for services, which were more than half of . . .