Performance Audit of AmeriCorps’ Compliance with the Payment Integrity Information Act of 2019 (PIIA) for Fiscal Year 2022
Open Recommendations
Include additional terms and conditions within future AmeriCorps General Grant and Cooperative Agreement Terms and Conditions policy documents to address the root causes of improper payments. Repeat recommendation for FY 2022.
Implement financial consequences or additional reporting requirements for grantees that have confirmed improper payments. Repeat recommendation for FY 2022.
Reconcile the differences between grantees’ internal accounting records and Federal Financial Reports (FFRs)to determine the propriety of the component payments or require grantees to perform this reconciliation; or treat unmatched reporting errors as unknown payment errors in the projection of the improper payment estimate. Repeat recommendation for FY 2022.
Include NST as a program susceptible to improper payments for future risk assessments. (New)
Publish improper payment and unknown payment estimates for NST in the accompanying materials provided with future annual financial statements in accordance with OMB guidance. (New)