Do Not Pay
Do Not Pay (DNP) operates a resource dedicated to preventing and detecting improper payments.
DNP is authorized and governed by the Payment Integrity Information Act of 2019 (PIIA), and several Office of Management and Budget (OMB) memoranda and circulars. The authorities generally belong to OMB, which delegated the operational aspects to the Department of the Treasury.
The Working System and DNP together create one element of the larger multi-agency government-wide DNP Initiative and centrally provides a variety of data matching and data analytics services to support agency programs in their efforts to prevent and detect improper payments.
How Does Do Not Pay Work?
Agencies use a secure online interface to check various data sources to verify eligibility of a vendor, grantee, loan recipient, or beneficiary to receive federal payments. To get all the details, watch the short video. NOTE: Payment Integration only checks against death data sources.
News and Updates
- OMB Releases Annual Data Showing Continued Progress in Reducing Improper Payments Across the Federal Government | OMB | The White House
- Payment Integrity Journal Winter 2024
- Payment Integrity Journal Spring 2023
- Treasury seeks greater data sharing in interagency plan to curb improper payments
- JFMIP Payment Integrity Initiative
- GAO - A Framework for Managing Improper Payments in Emergency Assistance Programs
Components of DNP
Web-based Portal
The DNP Portal lets you search multiple databases at one time. You can search for a single person or entity. You can batch your searches. You can set up so that the Portal regularly monitors the databases for specific names.
Data Analytics
Provides advanced payment analysis services to federal agencies. In partnership with the federal agencies, a variety of data analysis and visualization can be conducted to help combat improper payments.
Agency Support
Works with agencies to onboard, determine, and target the best DNP processes and data sources to meet agencies’ program needs.
DNP and the Payment Life Cycle
Our mission is to assist agencies to make informed decisions in the identification, mitigation, and elimination of improper payments.
Pre-award
Before you start to pay, search DNP to make sure it’s okay to pay this person or company.
Pre-payment
Check again throughout the time this person or company is getting payments, or set up to monitor their eligibility. You can also research matches.
At Time of Payment
Any funds disbursed by the Department of the Treasury go through Payment Integration, in which the DNP Portal automatically matches all PAM files against available death data sources. Read more about what DNP searches.
Post-payment
Use Data Analytics to see trends, develop predictive models, and develop risk scores unique to your program.