The Treasury Department and the Bureau of the Fiscal Service reported on October 6, 2026 their fiscal year 2026 results on preventing fraud and improper payments. Treasury says about 99 percent of federal programs can now access all Do Not Pay data sources they are legally authorized to use, up from about 4 percent at the end of fiscal 2025.
Treasury screened more than 2.3 billion records against Do Not Pay data sources, up from 641 million in fiscal 2025, and added nine new datasets, including company registration data from OpenCorporates, select verification against Social Security’s Numident data and grantee audit findings from the Federal Audit Clearinghouse.
Under a new payment verification process, Treasury screened more than 1.1 billion federal payments totaling about $3.7 trillion. It says it identified and returned about 13,500 payments totaling $175 million that would have gone to deceased individuals. Capabilities to validate bank account ownership and the presence and format of Taxpayer Identification Numbers became fully operational September 30, 2026.