# Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce

**Agency:** Commerce  
**Account:** Office of Inspector General  
**Source document:** Office of Inspector General · p. 39  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/budget/commerce/creating-helpful-incentives-to-produce  

> **Trust:** parsed from the agency Congressional Justification. Approximate, **not summable**, verify at the cited page.

## Funding ($M)

| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FY2026 | enacted | 7.0 |
| FY2027 | request | 2.0 |

## Commerce discretionary budget authority (OMB PBDB — authoritative)

FY2027 $7.00B, FY2026 $11.90B. This is the agency total, not a sum of the parsed lines.


## What this funds

Funds the Office of Inspector General's independent audits and investigations of the CHIPS and Science Act semiconductor incentive programs, overseeing the efficient issuance of funding while reducing the risk of fraud, waste, and abuse.


**Where it sits:** Civilian / Non-Defense › Commerce › Office of Inspector General › Office of Inspector General › Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce


*HitchAI is an independent intelligence service, not affiliated with the U.S. government. Civilian line dollars are parsed from agency Congressional Justifications and are approximate.*