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Treasury sets up one inbox for federal fraud tips
Treasury's new intake system will store fraud tips, attachments and referral histories, giving the department one place to route suspected waste and abuse complaints across agencies and flag duplicates.
Treasury is standing up a new intake and referral system for complaints about suspected fraud, waste and abuse tied to federal programs. The notice says it will store tips, supporting evidence and referral history.
- Treasury is creating a new Privacy Act system of records.
- The file will store tips, complaints and supporting evidence.
- Comments on the notice are due July 17, 2026.
- The Treasury Department is building a new place to collect and sort public complaints about suspected fraud, waste and abuse in federal programs
- The notice, published under the Privacy Act of 1974, says the new records system is effective upon publication
The Treasury Department is building a new place to collect and sort public complaints about suspected fraud, waste and abuse in federal programs. The notice, published under the Privacy Act of 1974, says the new records system is effective upon publication.
Treasury says the file is meant to receive tips, complaints, allegations, leads and related correspondence, then send them to the right federal agency, inspector general, law enforcement office or other authorized entity for review, investigation, audit, oversight or enforcement.
What the file can hold
Treasury says the system can include contact information, details about the people or businesses named in a tip, and supporting material such as screenshots, messages, audio, video and other attachments. It can also hold Treasury’s own triage notes and referral history.
The department says the record set should help it sort duplicate submissions, flag urgent matters and coordinate with other agencies on program-integrity issues. In practice, that means a complaint about misuse of federal money could move through one central intake point before it is passed along.
The comment window
Treasury is taking public comments through July 17, 2026.