Duplicate Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund Grant Awards
Other · Department of Education OIG · 2022-06-09 · about Department of Education
Report
Title
Duplicate Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund Grant Awards
Submitting OIG
Department of Education OIG
Component agency
Department of Education
Type
Other
Publication date
2022-06-09
Summary
This flash report presents our finding concerning duplicate Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund (HEERF) grant awards to institutions of higher education.1 This report includes a recommendation to enhance the U.S. Department of Education’s (Department) ability to prevent, identify, and correct duplicate HEERF grant awards.We identified 25 duplicate HEERF grant awards that OPE made to 24 schools, totaling about $73 million, which had not been corrected and documented in G5 as of August 2021.
Recommendations (1)
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Status
Text
1.1
Closed
Design and implement written policies and procedures for HEERF and other future emergency programs that specifically address (1) application and award verification procedures designed to prevent duplicate awards from occurring, (2) quality assurance…