Summary and Key Findings of Fiscal Year 2016 FEMA Disaster Grant and Program Audits

We determined that FEMA did not manage disaster relief grants and funds adequately and did not hold grant recipients accountable for properly managing disaster relief funds. We identified persistent problems such as improper contract costs and ineligible and unsupported expenditures as examples of this continued failure. During FY 2016, we identified $155.6 million, or 23 percent, in questioned costs out of the $686 million that we audited, which we recommended FEMA disallow as ineligible and unsupported costs. Further, FEMA still does not hold grant recipients accountable for failing to provide adequate monitoring or technical assistance to subgrantees.