Which agencies' improper payments grew the most from 2024 to 2025?
Improper payments in FY2025 compared with FY2024: Department of Housing and Urban Development $5.83B vs $45.24M (+12782.5%); Department of Transportation $2.40B vs $1.22B (+96.4%); Department of Defense $2.11B vs $1.09B (+93.7%).
| Agency | Improper payments | Improper payments baseline | Change | Change % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Department of Housing and Urban Development | $5.83B | $45.24M | $5.78B | 12782.5% |
| Department of Transportation | $2.40B | $1.22B | $1.18B | 96.4% |
| Department of Defense | $2.11B | $1.09B | $1.02B | 93.7% |
| Department of Veterans Affairs | $3.92B | $2.17B | $1.76B | 81.0% |
| Office of Personnel Management | $472.80M | $349.39M | $123.41M | 35.3% |
| Department of the Treasury | $28.06B | $21.48B | $6.58B | 30.7% |
| Department of Health and Human Services | $98.34B | $89.49B | $8.85B | 9.9% |
| Social Security Administration | $11.28B | $10.58B | $708.35M | 6.7% |
| Corporation for National and Community Service | $55.85M | $53.11M | $2.74M | 5.2% |
| Small Business Administration | $12.51B | $12.24B | $272.95M | 2.2% |
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- Improper payments are agencies' own estimates from samples (PaymentAccuracy.gov, OMB, under the Payment Integrity Information Act): payments that should not have been made or were the wrong amount, plus unknown payments the agency couldn't show were proper. They are not all losses (underpayments and documentation gaps count) and not fraud as such; only risk-susceptible programs are measured.
- Years are the fiscal year of the report; each estimate usually samples payments from an earlier 12 months. Programs join and leave the list, so totals across years compare different sets of programs.