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B-130515 1 (1970-01-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabkqh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 7,t - C ... . .E COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON. D.C. 20548 RELEASED B- 130515 JAN~ 2 0 1970 Dear Mr. Buchanan: In response to your request of September 16, 1969, and as discussed with members of your staff, we have examined into certain aspects of the New Careers component of the Concentrated Employment Program administered by the Jefferson County Committee for Economic Opportunity, Birmingham, Alabama. Your memorandum transmitted to us a copy of a letter to you dated September 12, 1969, from Mr. L. J. Willie, a member of the committee's board of directors, and a copy of a letter to the Comptroller General dated September 6, 1969, from David Singleton2 Executive Director of the committee. In his letter, Mr. Singleton requested that the General Accounting Office conduct a complete audit of the New Careers component with special reference to the recordkeeping system. We interviewed Mr. Singleton on October 1, 1969, and he informed us that the primary reason for his request for a review of the New Careers component was a charge by some program enrollees that other enrollees were being paid a training allowance for time not spent in training. Mr. Singleton eviously engaged the firm of Peat, Marwick, Mitchell and Co., certified public accountants, to investigate the payroll records and procedures of the New Careers component. In a report dated July 31, 1969, to the committee's board of directors, Peat, Marwick, Mitchell and Co. stated that its limited investigation of the payroll records and procedures of the New Careers component for the period Decem- ber 7, 1968 to July 25, 1969, revealed that payments were made to enrollees in the amount of $764 without adequate suDort or documentation-ai-d- thtC had noted an additional unsupported payment of $64 for the payroll period ended November 8, 1968. On October 2, 1969, we were informed by officials of the committee that a new timekeeping and payroll system for the New Careers component had been placed in operation on October 1, 1969. On the basis of their description of the new system, we concluded that, if the new system were effectively implemented, it would provide reasonably adequate control over payments to program enrollees. On October 20, 1969, we began an examination of the new timekeeping and payroll system for the New Careers component to determine whether the system was being properly implemented. At that time, officials of the committee told us that there was a strong possibility that the New Careers component in Birmingham would not be continued by the Department of Labor after

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