Now here’s a blog post you can really sink your teeth into, or you may be gnashing them together after reading this. An audit released last week by the Louisiana Legislative Auditor found about $6.4 million in payments from July 2012 to June 2016 that violated Medicaid Dental Program rules. This story easily emphasizes the importance of ensuring that when seeking cost reimbursement for a procedure, those cost must be eligible and allowable.

(The following was excerpted from a recent article in the Single Audit Information Service.) The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) plans to ensure that the state of New York and New York City properly close out an award for repairs to multifamily structures damaged by Hurricane Sandy, in response to a recent Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General (OIG) audit that found that accounting reports are still incomplete although the work was finished more than three years ago.

March 21 was supposed to be memorable day, and not just because it was the first day of spring. It was supposed to be the day that would end our wait for the effective date of some new federal regulations. As it turns out, we’ll have to give it a bit more time.

(The following was excerpted from a recent article in the Federal Grants Management Handbook.) The Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Federal Transit Administration (FTA) has revised its “Award Management Requirements” circular (FTA Circular 5010.1E) to incorporate DOT regulations under the Office of Management and Budget’s uniform guidance and to include terms for using FTA’s new electronic Transit Award Management System (TrAMS).

Well folks, it’s now official. It’s been many months in the making but federal research agencies now can use the updated governmentwide Research Terms and Conditions that implement the Office of Management and Budget’s uniform grant guidance. The final Research Terms and Conditions and Appendices are now available at the National Science Foundation’s (NSF’s) Research Terms and Conditions website at https://www.nsf.gov/awards/managing/rtc.jsp.

If you haven’t been to the Grants.gov website in a while, you can expect a few changes the next time to visit the site. Grants.gov now has a new homepage design aimed at providing better access to information by its users.

(The following was excerpted from a recent article in the Single Audit Information Service.) The Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD’s) Office of Public and Indian Housing (PIH) plans to improve controls to reduce the likelihood that residents in public housing receive multiple subsidies under HUD rental subsidy programs, in response to a recent HUD Office of Inspector General (OIG) audit.