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Department of Health & Human Services
Pennsylvania Generally Complied With Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program Requirements
Pennsylvania generally complied with MIECHV program requirements and terms and conditions of the With Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) program’s grants. However, we found that 2 of Pennsylvania’s 10 grant subrecipients did not properly account for MIECHV program funds. One subrecipient incorrectly claimed and received $131,591 in unallowable MIECHV program funds because it based its claim on a budgeted employee fringe benefit rate and not the actual rate. Pennsylvania repaid to the Federal Government $34,786 of that amount for FYs 2012 and 2013, and HRSA determined that the remaining $96,805 should be made available for use for Pennsylvania's MIECHV program provided that the funds were obligated by September 30, 2016, and liquidated by December 30, 2016. The second subrecipient claimed at least $252,399 of MIECHV program funds for expenditures that may not have been related to the program because it did not properly record MIECHV program expenditures in its general ledger.
Operation Inherent Resolve - Summary of Work Performed by the Department of the Treasury and Office of Inspector General Related to Terrorist Financing, ISIS, and Anti-Money Laundering for Fourth Quarter Fiscal Year 2018
The OIG investigated allegations that a former National Park Service (NPS) superintendent held visitor donations in a private investment account instead of a U.S. Treasury account as required by NPS policy and may have personally benefited from the funds.We found no evidence of misuse or personal gain. We analyzed the account and found no withdrawals or transfers; all the donations remained in the account. Although holding the funds in a private investment account violated NPS policy, we found the superintendent was following procedures established by his predecessors. The NPS is in the process of transferring the funds to a U.S. Treasury account and enhancing its oversight of the funds.
The OIG investigated the alleged theft of a U.S. Treasury check paid to Cheryle Jordan for land that Jordan sold through the U.S. Department of the Interior’s (DOI’s) Land Buy-Back Program for Tribal Nations. Jordan filed a claim with the Office of Special Trustee for American Indians (OST) stating she never received the check. After Jordan filed her claim, however, the OST determined the check had been cashed.We determined Jordan falsely reported the check as stolen. Jordan admitted she mailed a false claim to fraudulently obtain a second check. She subsequently pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the District of Montana to mail fraud and was sentenced to 2 years’ probation.
Ohio made capitation payments totaling $90.5 million on behalf of deceased beneficiaries. We confirmed that all beneficiaries associated with the 100 capitation payments in our stratified random sample were deceased. Ohio properly recovered 37 of these capitation payments. However, Ohio did not recover the remaining 63 capitation payments totaling $74,495 ($51,431 Federal share). On the basis of our sample results, we estimated that Ohio did not recover unallowable payments to Medicaid Managed Care Organizations totaling at least $51.3 million ($38 million Federal share) during our audit period.
