with a Commonwealth agency and utilizes Federal or State funds.
§ 302. Assessment of improper payments.
(a) Assessment.--No less than once every two years, a
Commonwealth agency shall conduct an assessment of improper
payments on any program which is not required under Federal law.
A Commonwealth agency shall conduct an initial assessment of
improper payments no later than 120 days after the effective
date of this section.
(b) Contents.--As part of the assessment under subsection
(a), a Commonwealth agency shall:
(1) Determine whether the programs operated by the
Commonwealth agency have a low, moderate or high risk of
resulting in improper payments based on each program's total
amount of improper payments in dollars and total improper
payments as a percentage of each program's total
expenditures.
(2) Explain the reasons why the programs operated by the
Commonwealth have been assessed as having a low, moderate or
high risk of resulting in improper payments.
(3) Discover and report the root causes of improper
payments within high-risk programs.
(4) Utilize statistical sampling and extrapolation to
calculate an improper payment error rate for high-risk
programs.
(5) Adopt a corrective action plan to reduce improper
payment error rates to no more than 3% for high-risk programs
for the next occurring biennial assessment.
(c) Copies.--A Commonwealth agency shall provide an
electronic copy of the assessment under subsection (a) to all of
the following:
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