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Department of the Treasury
FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT: Audit of the United States Mint's Schedules of Custodial Deep Storage Gold and Silver Reserves as of September 30, 2023 and 2022
Our objective was to assess the Postal Service’s CPU and VPO programs. Specifically, we (1) assessed Postal Service oversight of CPUs and VPOs, and (2) evaluated Postal Service strategies for establishing new CPUs and VPOs. We analyzed policies, data, and growth initiatives, and visited select CPUs and VPOs nationwide.
We performed an audit examining HUD’s efforts to prevent duplication of benefits when using Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Disaster Recovery and Mitigation funds. Our objective was to determine how the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) assesses the adequacy of grantee procedures to prevent a duplication of benefits, both before and after grant execution.
HUD certified grantees’ high-level processes for preventing duplication of benefits before grant execution and allowed grantees to develop more detailed procedures for individual grant activities later. However, HUD did not review grantees’ more detailed procedures before grantees began spending funds on program activities. In addition, HUD certified before grant award that grantees had adequate procedures when the grantees’ procedures did not meet the adequacy criteria HUD established in the Federal Register. Further, HUD’s adequacy criteria did not include all statutory requirements. Because HUD certified procedures that did not meet requirements and did not review detailed activity-level procedures before grantees began spending funds, HUD risked grantees’ failing to prevent any duplication of benefits in accordance with the law.
We recommended that the Director of the Office of Disaster Recovery (1) review grantees’ activity-level procedures to prevent any duplication of benefits for adequacy before grantees process applications for assistance and (2) ensure that all applicable requirements for preventing any duplication of benefits are included in the adequacy criteria, grantee certifications, and HUD review checklists supporting the certification.
An Amtrak lead service attendant based in Miami, Florida, resigned from her position on October 20, 2023, as a result of our investigation. We found that the former employee violated company policies by engaging in outside employment while on a medical leave of absence.
Financial Audit of USAID Resources Managed by Democracy Works Foundation NPC in Multiple Countries Under Cooperative Agreement AID-674-A-17-00012, March 1, 2022, to February 28, 2023
Financial Audit of USAID Resources Managed by Health Systems Consult Ltd. in Nigeria Under Cooperative Agreement 72062022CA00003, March 10 to December 31, 2022