From: Papier, Joel (NIH/OD)

Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 11:54 AM

To: List ICTRAVELPOC-L

Subject: OFM Transmittal No. 141 - Travel Credit Card Misuse

Importance: High

All,

As you know, we have now been tasked w/ reporting employee cases of travel

card misuse to the OMB on a quarterly basis. In this regard, this office

has requested each IC to review the monthly USBank Report and to report to

us the transactions that they believe constitute cases of misuse. To date,

we have received data from you representative of the January and February

monthly reports. At the same time, this office is proactively reviewing the

same reports, not in an effort to correct your findings, but more in line w/

obtaining a better gauge as to whether there is a clear understanding

throughout the community as to what sorts of transactions, in fact, do

constitute travel card misuse. Thus, what we have learned is that there are

still some uncertainties in this regard. W/ this in mind, this office will

be issuing OFM Transmittal No. 141A shortly, as a follow up to this message.

Transmittal No. 141A should help clarify what items you need to be looking

for when you examine the monthly reports for cases of misuse. In the

interim, we will be contacting some of you w/ additional questions

concerning transactions that we believe need to be examined more closely

based on the number of cases you reported to us for both the months of

January and February. Keep in mind, even though a cardholder might have

been reported to us in the first quarter as a case of misuse, if that same

cardholder continued to use the card in an unauthorized manner into the

second quarter of the fiscal year, the employee would have to be counted

again in the second quarter, as a case of misuse.

Matt/Sonya: Please distribute this message to your fellow AOs.

Should you have any questions w/ regard to this information, you can contact

me on 301-496-4379.

Joel