Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Act

Acronym: IPERA

In FY 2010, Congress amended the Improper Payment Information Act (IPIA), which is now known as the Improper Payment Eliminations and Recovery Act (IPERA) (Public Law 111-204), to aim in standardizing the way Federal agencies report improper payments in programs they oversee or administer. The IPERA includes requirements for identifying and reporting improper payments and defines improper payments as any payment that should not have been made or that was made in an incorrect amount (including overpayments and underpayments). Incorrect payments also include payments to ineligible recipients or payments for ineligible services, as well as duplicate payments and payments for services not received.