DOGE: FedGov has ~3M employees, ~4.6M credit cards/accounts

Are gas (fleet) cards separate from expense account cards?

what happens to all those reward points

Don't think there are any on the govt cards, but when we used to travel using DTS we were prompted to use our own skymiles and hotel rewards accounts even tho the govt was paying.

DOGE should change that so the govt gets the cash equivalent of these miles/points

I have either 2 or 3 company cards depending if you count the department one that i hold.

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what happens to all those reward points

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Free blizzards at DQ.

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The federal government has approximately 656,000 fleet vehicles (trucks, cars, vans, etc). Subtracting a card for each vehicle would still leave 3M employees with ~4M cards.

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You’ve got aircraft, ground support equipment and a lot of other similar items I’d guess as well.

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Are gas (fleet) cards separate from expense account cards?

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My first hunch would be that the discrepancy is largely due to something like that...

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I have either 2 or 3 company cards depending if you count the department one that i hold.

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I'm guessing you are in the private sector?

Even if we say anyone with a card has 3 cards (not including the gas cards removed in an earlier post), that's still 1.3M of the 3M federal employees with cards or nearly half (44%) of all federal employees with cards/accounts. Is every other federal employee involved in purchasing? It seems like the auditing on that would be a bit difficult to keep up with.

This is a little of

1) Way too many credit cards
2) Absolutely shitty bookkeeping

I have seen enough sets of books to know that NOBODY knows how to record credit cards correctly or close the account down to zero once you get rid of one. I cannot tell you how many times I have asked a client for a year end statement on an account they say they have a $5,356 liability on the balance sheet on. "Oh... we paid that off 2 years ago and closed the account." Well why the frick does it say you owe 5 grand on it. "I dunno... we don't really look at the balance sheet".

And this is a business that gets their books looked at every now and then and questioned. Stuff like that would snowball when nobody looks at or cares about the books.

When I worked for a university, I believe that at one time they would occasionally issue cards specific to an organization for people who handled purchasing just to make reconciling expenses easier. However, I only worked for feds as a uniformed service member. I had one card for travel and other expenses but the motor pool vehicles (LMTV, HMMWV, etc) had fuel cards.