{"id":26527,"date":"2026-03-18T07:18:50","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T12:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/?p=26527"},"modified":"2026-03-18T11:52:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T16:52:43","slug":"reporting-fraud-waste-and-abuse-spring-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/2026\/administration\/reporting-fraud-waste-and-abuse-spring-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Reporting Fraud, Waste, and Abuse \u2013 Spring 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Per Tech Policy 131, if you reasonably believe <em>fraud, waste, or abuse<\/em>* has occurred, please report it to:<\/p>\n<p>Your supervisor OR<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Tech Internal Audit<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/tntech.co1.qualtrics.com\/jfe\/form\/SV_08r82PhJ0bBPlie\">Tech Online Reporting<\/a><br \/>\n(931) 372-3045OR<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tennessee Comptroller&#8217;s Office\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/comptroller.tn.gov\/office-functions\/investigations\/fraud-waste-and-abuse.html\">State of Tennessee Online Reporting<\/a><br \/>\n(800) 232-5454<\/p>\n<p>*Definitions:<br \/>\nFraud &#8211; intentional deception to achieve unlawful personal gain<br \/>\nWaste &#8211; extravagant, careless, or needless use of funds, property, or personnel<br \/>\nAbuse &#8211; unnecessary or unreasonable use of government funds or property<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Per Tech Policy 131, if you reasonably believe fraud, waste, or abuse* has occurred, please report it to: Your supervisor OR Tech Internal Audit Tech Online Reporting (931) 372-3045OR Tennessee Comptroller&#8217;s Office\u00a0 State of Tennessee Online Reporting (800) 232-5454 *Definitions: Fraud &#8211; intentional deception to achieve unlawful personal gain Waste &#8211; extravagant, careless, or needless [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[23,24,22],"class_list":{"0":"post-26527","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-administration","7":"tag-facstaff","8":"tag-rs","9":"tag-student"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26527"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26547,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26527\/revisions\/26547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}