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AmeriCorps Agreed to Issue Regular Fraud Alerts Related to Advance Fee Schemes

2025
2023-055
Investigation
AmeriCorps Office of Inspector General
AmeriCorps

AmeriCorps OIG investigated allegations that individuals posing as AmeriCorps employees on social media sites offered grant funds in exchange for a fee, such as gift cards or cell phones, as part of a scheme known as "advance fee fraud." The evidence collected through the investigation supports the...

AmeriCorps Recouping Funds Improperly Drawn Down by a Grantee

2025
2021-022
Investigation
AmeriCorps Office of Inspector General
AmeriCorps

AmeriCorps Office of Inspector General (OIG) investigated allegations that Corp Regional de Guayama de Servicios a la Comunidad (CRGSC), located in Cayey, PR, drew down grant funds through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Payment Management System (HHS-PMS) for its Foster...

DOJ Press Release: Allegheny County Agrees to Pay $629,043 to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations That It Failed to Properly Support AmeriCorps Program Expenditures

2025
Investigation
AmeriCorps Office of Inspector General
AmeriCorps

United States Attorney David Metcalf announced that Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, has agreed to pay $629,043 to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by failing to contribute the required percentage of resources in exchange for AmeriCorps funds the county received.

AmeriCorps Disallows Over $110,000 in Education Awards Based Upon Improper Timesheets and Unallowable Changes to Member Service Terms

2025
2020-034
Investigation
AmeriCorps Office of Inspector General
AmeriCorps

AmeriCorps OIG initiated this investigation after receiving a referral from OIG’s Office of Audits. The referral alleged that, in 2019, Delaware’s Governor's Commission on Community & Volunteer Service, an AmeriCorps State and National Program grantee also known as Volunteer Delaware, was not...

AmeriCorps' Compliance with the Payment Integrity Information Act of 2019 for Fiscal Year 2024

2025
OIG-AR-25-04
Audit
AmeriCorps Office of Inspector General
AmeriCorps

The Payment Integrity Information Act (PIIA) requires agencies to annually review and identify programs and activities that may be susceptible to significant improper payments, estimate the improper payment rates in agency programs, and report on their actions to reduce and recover those payments...

AmeriCorps Disallows Subgrantee Costs Associated with Living Allowances, Education Awards, and Non-compliant National Service Criminal History Checks

2025
2021-024
Investigation
AmeriCorps Office of Inspector General
AmeriCorps

The AmeriCorps Office of Inspector General (AmeriCorps OIG) investigated allegations that surfaced during an AmeriCorps OIG audit regarding the submittal of false documents and unallowable living allowances to non-AmeriCorps members (members) by AmeriCorps State and National subgrantee, Kuumba...

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