Oklahoma State Auditor and Inspector Cindy Byrd has released the annual federal single audit report. Her office found $93.4 million of questioned costs in FY 2023.

“Just to put this in perspective, before the pandemic, Oklahoma’s questioned costs routinely averaged around $5 million dollars per year,” Byrd told reporters during a news conference on Wednesday. “After the pandemic, the average has been closer to around $30 million per year.”

Last year’s federal single audit reported $29 million in questioned costs.

Byrd said two agencies, Oklahoma Human Services and Oklahoma Management and Enterprise Services, were responsible for the largest shares of questioned costs.

She attributed $63.6 million of the total to Human Services and $21.8 million to OMES.

“Since March 2020, Oklahoma Hum

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