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Summary: NPS Employee Wrongfully Obtained Unemployment Insurance/Pandemic Unemployment Compensation
We found that a full-time NPS employee wrongfully obtained State unemployment insurance and Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation.
USBR Employee Wrongfully Obtained Unemployment Insurance/Pandemic Unemployment Assistance
We found that a USBR employee wrongfully obtained $28,524 in combined Unemployment Insurance and Pandemic Unemployment Assistance.
The Bureau of Indian Affairs Great Plains Region Did Not Oversee CARES Act Funds Appropriately
We determined that the BIA Great Plains Region did not hold three Tribes accountable for submitting CARES Act financial reports or narrative reports.
The Omaha Tribe Did Not Account for CARES Act Funds Appropriately
We determined that the Omaha Tribe did not follow applicable requirements in an agreement with the BIA.
The Bureaus of Indian Affairs and Indian Education Have the Opportunity To Implement Additional Controls To Prevent or Detect Multi-dipping of Pandemic Response Funds
We recommended the BIA and the BIE implement controls designed to prevent or detect instances of multi-dipping of pandemic response funds.
The Three Affiliated Tribes Did Not Account for CARES Act Funds Appropriately
We determined that the Three Affiliated Tribes did not follow applicable requirements in an agreement with the BIA.
The Lower Brule Sioux Tribe Did Not Account for CARES Act Funds Appropriately
We determined that the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe did not follow applicable requirements in its agreements with the BIA.
COVID Relief Funding Distribution
Our audit objective was to answer the following questions: (1) What is Kansas’ process for distributing COVID relief funding?; and (2) Have Kansas’ distributions of COVID relief funding been appropriate? The scope of our work included examining the distribution process for CARES Act and American Rescue Plan Act funding. Additionally, we evaluated a sample of CARES Act expenditures made in 42 Kansas counties.
Reviewing Connectivity Emergency Response Grants for Broadband Development
Our audit objective was to answer the question: what entities received Connectivity Emergency Response Grants and where were they located? We found that the Kansas Department of Commerce (Commerce) awarded $48.5 million in Connectivity Emergency Response Grant funds through 66 grants to all seven regions in Kansas with the largest amounts going to South Central, Southwest, and Northeast Kansas. We also found that Commerce denied some applications through its review process.
Fulfillment of Purchase Card Orders
Our inspection identified $155,575 in CARES Act and pandemic-related purchase card transactions with insufficient documentation.