Form SF 278 Instructions Nsf

Instructions and help about Form SF 278 Instructions Nsf

Hello, and welcome to another of several presentations about ethics. I’m your host, Andrew Tobin, and this series is brought to you by the USDA Office of Ethics, where we are always happy to answer all of your questions you might have. Today we’ll showcase our top 8 tips for how to fill out your OGE Form 278. But first, let’s take a moment to learn about why this form is so important to the work we do here at USDA. The OGE Form 278 Public Financial Disclosure report is a tool that allows us to take a prospective look at certain employees’ financial assets. We need to have our federal work be free of conflicts of interest. The moral principle is one should not use federal work for self-enrichment. Further, there’s a criminal statute against a conflict of interest at work here. The 278 Form is a tool that allows us to screen senior level employees for conflicts of interest in a prospective fashion. It allows ethics officials to analyze employees’ holdings on an annual basis ,