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AFMD-82-25 1 (1981-11-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabcqz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: COMPT.tOLALR GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WA4WNTON D.Q am pTR'_S TEKD . pot to be rele.sed ovttsde the 04ee' B-201636 Accouvit lg Office except on the ba's.s of spegiflc appowva NOV 1 3 1881 by the Offict of Cengressionel Re11ionlas The Honorable David Durenberger Chairman, Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations# Committee on Governmental Affairs United States Senate Subjects Need to Strengthen Audit Oversight on Existing and Future Block Grant Programs (AFND-82-25) Dear Mr. Chairman: As requested by your office on October 30, 1981, this report ummarizes the results of our recently completed review of the title XX social services grant program. We believe this informa- tion will be of assistance to the Subcommittee in its current deliberations on proposed legislation designed to strengthen audit oversight on existing and future block grant programs. The objective of our review was to assess the .quality and effectiveness of the States' financial management control systems in providing adequate accountability over Federal funds. Although our specific findings deal with title XX as a categorical grant r-- ram, we believe the weaknesses we identified-particularly t je related to audit coverage-have a direct bearing on the issues being raised by the Subcommittee in its efforts to improve accountability and audit oversight on block grant funds for which the States have stewardship. Title XX was selected for review because it was a State-oper- ated grant program designed to give States and their local govern- ments maximum flexibility in pla~nirng implementing, managing, and administering a variety of social services programs tailored to the special needs of their own citizens. Because of the degree of flexibility inherent in the program, the cognizant Federal agency has had to rely heavily upon the States' financial management con- trol systems for ensuring accountability over billions of dollars of program expenditures. We reviewed the grant management and adminietrative controls in four States with title XX awards total- ing $555.8 aillion in fiscal 1979. To test the effectiveness of these controls we performed detailed financial and compliance reviews of a judgment sample of 98 purchase-of-service contracts totaling $106 million, or about 20 percent of the total value of parchase-of-service contracts awarded in the four States. (Tl1519)

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