21.   The estimate of improper payments, based on an exhaustive review of a sample of actual claims, is substantially higher than prior estimates by health policy experts.

22.   The decline in claims for negative income tax payments comes during the first year of an IRS crackdown on improper payments.

23.   The GAO noted that the improper payments were often discovered after the checks had already been sent.

24.   The sampling of claims reviewed to screen for improper payments is so minuscule as to make it statistically irrelevant.

25.   The Securities and Exchange Commission said Triton, Keever and former Triton Indonesia vice president Richard L. McAdoo made improper payments and falsified company records.

26.   These improper payments could range from inadvertent mistakes to outright fraud and abuse.

27.   YSU received sanctions last February following an NCAA investigation that found a player had received an improper payment from a trustee.

28.   Agencies are not required to identify improper payments, and several agencies reported losing money to improper payments but did not identify how much they lost.

29.   Because Amedi was never paid, police suspect that he was expecting to receive some sort of improper payment.

30.   Gotbaum said the Clinton administration plans to set guidelines by the end of the year urging other agencies to devise systems for tracking and halting improper payments.