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AG report on Education Ministry shows…$13M still outstanding as overpaid salaries
For 2013, the salary overpayments continued at the Ministry of Education. These overpayments amounted to just over half a million. With these new overpayments the Ministry’s outstanding overpayments have climbed to $13.887M.
And though a systems review had been previously called for by the Auditor General, it appears as though no such review had been done.
According to the 2013 Auditor General’s Report, $531,649 from seven transactions was overpaid for salaries. These transactions were related to pay change directives for resignation and dismissals.
According to the report, the transactions were forwarded late to the Central Accounting Unit of the Ministry, thus resulting in the overpayments.
To date, the report added, the overpaid amounts for the period under review have not been recovered. The situation is worsened by the fact that over $13M remains outstanding from previous overpayments.
According to the extensive report, the Ministry managed to overpay $13.650M in salaries from 2006 to 2012. However, the issue of recovering the overpaid sums was highlighted by the AG on a number of occasions and hence the Ministry collected amounts totaling $294,437 in 2013.
Though the Audit Office commended the Ministry’s recovery of some of the outstanding funds, the unrecovered amounts as at December 31, 2013 totaled $13.887M.
The Audit Office reiterated its recommendation of a review of the system, stating that such a review would ensure “that the measures in place are updated to provide more efficient, effective and timely advice to the Central Auditing Unit.”
In response to the AG’s findings, the Ministry indicated that efforts are ongoing to recover the outstanding overpaid salaries/deductions from the previous years. The Ministry further noted that it had succeeded in reducing the total sum from previous years.
This response has been one employed by the Ministry in the past.
In the 2012 AG Report, it was revealed that the Ministry recovered $2.312M during that year from the $14.892M overpaid from 2006 through 2011. However, the Ministry overpaid salaries totaling $1.070M from across a total of 13 transactions.
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