Fraud Awareness
The AOC OIG maintains an annual training requirement accessed through the AOC Learn portal for all AOC employees on:
- How to identify fraud, waste and abuse
- Role in preventing and reporting fraud, waste and abuse
- Proper government property disposal
- Examples of common fraud types like:
- Contract fraud
- False Claims Act
- Workers’ compensation fraud
- Time and attendance fraud
- The components of the Fraud Triangle
- Pressure: financial or non-financial issues that may provide incentive to commit fraud
- such as high medical bills, past-due accounts, addiction to alcohol or gambling, unrealistic work expectations
- Opportunity: ability to commit fraud such as access to assets and/or information
- Rationalization: employee’s self-justification that their fraudulent actions are reasonable or permissible
- Pressure: financial or non-financial issues that may provide incentive to commit fraud
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