September 18, 2014 – 8:58 am
Planning to cheat your state’s unemployment system? Think again. The Department of Labor this week issued more than $87 million nationwide to improve state unemployment insurance programs. The funds will allow state agencies to implement program integrity and system improvement…
September 5, 2013 – 7:29 am
(The following was excerpted from an article in the Federal Grants Management Handbook.) Several state educational agencies (SEAs) and local educational agencies (LEAs) recently reviewed by the Department of Education, Office of Inspector General did not always comply with laws…
January 9, 2013 – 7:00 am
(The following was excerpted from an article in the Single Audit Information Service.) Federal Highway Administration officials plan to review each state’s cost estimating procedures by May 2013 to ensure that states are obligating funds for American Recovery and Reinvestment…
September 29, 2011 – 6:00 am
(This post is based on an upcoming article in the Federal Grants Management Handbook.) The Department of Education plans to tell states that received State Fiscal Stabilization Fund dollars under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act about program monitoring results sooner.
By Jerry Ashworth
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Posted in Compliance/Reporting, Funding Agencies, Grants Management, OMB Circulars and Regulations, Recovery Act/ARRA/Stimulus, State and Local Governments
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Also tagged ARRA, ED, GAO, local educational agencies, monitoring, SFSF, state educational agencies
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August 12, 2011 – 7:54 am
Here’s hoping you’re all reading this on vacation, like our elected Congressional representatives. But wherever you are this week, here’s a rundown of what you may have missed in the latest round of analysis looking at how the recently inked…
Amid all the pro-transparency, pro-accountability, anti-waste hoopla that has dominated the headlines (and our blog) concerning Rep. Daniel Issa’s (R-Calif.) Digital Accountability and Transparency Act (DATA Act) bill and President Obama’s Campaign to Cut Waste initiative, the real white elephant…
By Jerry Ashworth
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Posted in Compliance/Reporting, Congress, Grants Management, Improper Payments, Legislation, Monitoring/Subrecipients/Subawards, OMB Circulars and Regulations, Recovery Act/ARRA/Stimulus, State and Local Governments
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Also tagged American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Campaign to Cut Waste, compliance, DATA Act, FAST Board, Federal Accountability and Spending Transparency Board, Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act, Issa, Obama, reporting, waste
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It’s no secret that states face budget crises that are potentially more damaging for local entities than discretionary spending cuts at the federal level. States claim that they were the first into the recession, and many are still climbing out…
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