Sneak Preview: DOL Seeks More Employment Data Related to Training
(The following was excerpted from an article in the Federal Grants Management Handbook.) Department of Labor officials plan to assess best practices to enable state labor departments to better identify how many participants trained in the Workforce Investment Act’s Adult…
NGMA Collecting Technical Corrections To Send to OMB
Nobody’s perfect, even the federal government. Within the huge document that is the Office of Management and Budget’s uniform grant guidance, there are random technical errors and inconsistencies that must be corrected. Such errors are not errors in policies within…
Sneak Preview: Medicaid Exclusions Due to Fraud Rise in FY 2013
(The following was excerpted from an article in the Single Audit Information Service.) In fiscal year 2013, the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General, in response to referrals from Medicaid Fraud Control Units, excluded a greater…
Will OMB Meet Its April Compliance Supplement Goal?
One of my favorite commercials is one I’m sure you’ve seen many times now. You know – the camel commercial. The GEICO commercial where the camel walks through the office and asks his coworkers “GUESS WHAT DAY IT IS? GUESS…
Norman Dong Leaves as OMB Acting Controller
Sometimes you can’t tell the players without a program. Here we are, during one of the most pivotal times in the history of federal grants as grant stakeholders attempt to understand the changes in the Office of Management and Budget’s…
Sneak Preview: OMB Guidance Adds New Records Retention Exception
(The following was excerpted from an article in the Federal Grants Management Handbook). The Office of Management and Budget’s new grant reform guidance, as previously established in Circular A-110, still requires that recipients of federal awards retain financial and statistical…
Indiana Auditor Finds Fault with County Auditor’s Internal Controls
It’s one thing for an auditor to come down hard on a grant recipient for lacking internal controls — that we’ve seen before. But it’s another when an auditor takes another auditor to task for that same offense. When I…
Sneak Preview: Improved Monitoring Needed for Colo. Meal Program
(The following was excerpted from an article in the Single Audit Information Service.) The Colorado Department of Education, Office of School Nutrition is developing standard operating procedures — and plans to train office staff how to implement them — designed…
NIH Seeks Comments on Its Guidance on Laboratory Animals
For those familiar with animal research as part of grant projects, the National Institutes of Health wants to hear from you. NIH’s Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare recently announced that it is seeking comments and suggestions on its guidance to…
OMB Planning Technical Revisions, Updated FAQ on Reform Guidance
The Office of Management and Budget’s grant reform guidance has been publicly available now for about three months. If you’ve read it cover to cover, you may have possibly noticed certain continuity flaws or glitches. If so, OMB is requesting…