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King County’s Home Free Guarantee Program has Sufficient Internal Controls to Mitigate Potential Fraud, Waste, and Abuse
February 2, 2018
In 2016, King County’s Home Free Guarantee program served more than 500 King County employees providing about 1,000 taxi rides in cases of personal emergencies or unexpected overtime. King County provides this program to encourage employees to take public transportation, bike, walk, or carpool to work. Providing a guaranteed way home in the event of an emergency eliminates one of the primary reasons for people to drive alone. In our review of this program, we found that overall, there are sufficient controls in place to mitigate potential, fraud, waste, and abuse.
Audit Highlights
We found that overall there are sufficient controls in place to mitigate the potential for waste, fraud, and abuse of this program.
We did not make recommendations in this report.
King County spends about $64,000 annually on the Home Free Guarantee Program to encourage employees to use public transportation, vanpools, biking, and walking to commute to work. It provides up to eight free taxi rides home from work per year in cases of personal emergency or unexpected overtime. While this is a relatively small program, it provides more than 1,000 trips per year and helps encourage employees to avoid driving alone to work. This audit evaluated the sufficiency of the controls this program has to avoid fraud and abuse.