Open Recommendations

Ensure the Mi'kmaq Nation creates and implements written policies and procedures with the necessary guidance to assist staff in preparing accurate progress reports.

Ensure the Mi'kmaq Nation creates and implements written policies and procedures with the necessary guidance to assist staff in preparing accurate progress reports.

Ensure the Mi'kmaq Nation confirms that the missing required checks on current employees who may work with minors have been conducted and are documented, to include searches of public sex
offender and child abuse websites/registries and updated checks on employees who have been employed longer than 5 years.

Ensure the Mi'kmaq Nation confirms that the missing required checks on current employees who may work with minors have been conducted and are documented, to include searches of public sex
offender and child abuse websites/registries and updated checks on employees who have been employed longer than 5 years.

Ensure the Mi'kmaq Nation trains staff on adhering to the established policies and procedures related to the Determination of Suitability special condition and retains documentation of the required checks.

Ensure the Mi'kmaq Nation trains staff on adhering to the established policies and procedures related to the Determination of Suitability special condition and retains documentation of the required checks.

Ensure the Mi'kmaq Nation improves its written policies and procedures to instruct staff on how to calculate indirect costs using the correct base and how to retain appropriate supporting documentation.

Ensure the Mi'kmaq Nation improves its written policies and procedures to instruct staff on how to calculate indirect costs using the correct base and how to retain appropriate supporting documentation.

Remedy the unsupported indirect costs of $6,189 in the 2018-VO-GX-0125 grant and $709 in the 2020-JP-FX-0007 grant, totaling $6,898.

Ensure the Mi'kmaq Nation creates written policies and procedures on how to properly support allocated personnel and fringe benefit costs using records that reflect actual time spent among specific activities or cost objectives.

Ensure the Mi'kmaq Nation improves and implements written policies and procedures for maintaining proper property records and conducting required physical inventory on equipment

Ensure the Mi'kmaq Nation adds existing equipment into the improved property management system.

Remedy the $9,169 of unallowable personnel costs.

Remedy the $8,176 of unallowable indirect costs that exceeded the budgeted amount.

Ensure the Mi'kmaq Nation revises its procedures for grant budget monitoring performed by program directors and provide program directors a tool that helps them compare cumulative expenditures to their budgets.

Remedy the $4,349 in unsupported questioned costs related to excess cash-on-hand.

FHFA should update examination manuals to include specific procedures to assess the Enterprises’ oversight of seller/servicers’ flood insurance compliance.

FHFA should ensure examiners perform and document examination activities to assess whether Freddie Mac implemented procedures reasonably designed to ensure that mortgage loans they purchase are covered by adequate flood insurance if the property is located in a Special Flood Hazard Area.

The Bureaus of Global Talent Management and Diplomatic Security should develop standard operating procedures for political appointees whose security clearances are suspended.

The Bureau of Diplomatic Security should amend its guidance regarding the Information Facilities and Access Restriction (IFAR) process to include criteria as to which type of IFAR should be issued and to emphasize that a "Typical" IFAR allows the employee continued access to a substantial amount of Sensitive But Unclassified information.

The Bureau of Diplomatic Security should amend its processes to ensure that supervisors and colleagues are notified when an employee's security clearance is suspended and the employee is permitted to continue working in the same position in order to ensure that classified information is not shared.

CMS should pursue further actions to help States share knowledge with eachother and coordinate internally regarding strategies to ensure needed care for Medicaid enrollees with HIV.

CMS should take additional steps to help States leverage the State Data Resource Center to access and use Medicare data for dually eligible enrollees with HIV.

CMS should geographically target efforts to increase the number of MOUD providers that treat Medicare enrollees in high-need counties.

CMS should work with States to assess whether their Medicaid reimbursement rates for treatment with MOUD are sufficient to recruit and retain enough MOUD providers.