# Duplicate Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund Grant Awards
> **Other** by 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

- **Rec 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…
## Source
- [oversight.gov report page](https://www.oversight.gov/reports/other/duplicate-higher-education-emergency-relief-fund-grant-awards)
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