Sneak Preview: CMS To Help States Implement Payment Suspensions

(The following is excerpted from a recent article in the Single Audit Information Service.) To improve Medicaid program integrity, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) plans to provide additional technical assistance…
Read more ›Review Issuances To Ensure Your Grants Will Last

For this blog post, we’ll switch things around and discuss last things first. Or in this case, we’ll focus solely on the last thing.
Read more ›Sneak Preview: GAO Urges RHS To Monitor Assistance Allocations

(The following was excerpted from a recent article in the Federal Grants Management Handbook.) Although the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Housing Service (RHS) last year developed a new method to better estimate federal rental assistance to multifamily housing properties…
Read more ›Open Data Could Reduce the Need for Grant Forms

Imagine a world without forms! As the husband of a Girl Scout troop leader who has watched spend her much of her free time gathering, counting and reviewing the required forms for numerous events, I can tell you that completing…
Read more ›Sneak Preview: Agencies Urged To Reduce Improper Payments

(The following was excerpted from a recent article in the Single Audit Information Service.) A key official with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) recently encouraged federal financial officials to identify ways to reduce improper payments in their agencies…
Read more ›NIH Posts Reminder To Applicants About Being Complete and Compliant

Sometimes it helps us all to get a reminder. That’s why many of us use the meeting prompt feature in our Outlook calendars to let us know that there is something coming up on our agenda. Grant applicants also need…
Read more ›Sneak Preview: NSF Expects To Issue Revised PAPPG in October

(The following was excerpted from a recent article in the Federal Grants Management Handbook.) The National Science Foundation (NSF) plans to issue a revised version of its Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide (PAPPG) in October, and the changes…
Read more ›Building Relationships Is Vital to Winning Grant Funding

This week, we here at Thompson attended (and exhibited at) the Grant Professionals Association (GPA) National Capital Region Grants Conference in Arlington, Va. The meeting was very informative and there was plenty of audience participation in all of the sessions…
Read more ›Sneak Preview: DOI OIG Seeks Policy for Tracking Land Purchases

(The following was excerpted from a recent article in the Single Audit Information Service.) Officials within the Department of the Interior (DOI) plan to increase training for DOI program managers and grant recipients to help them comply with the Office…
Read more ›USDA Helps To Provide Nutrition Assistance to States Hit by Hurricanes

The last few weeks have been pretty rough for those in the South dealing with damage caused by Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma (not to mention that Jose is still lurking out there). These states have experienced so much devastation,…
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