COVID-19—Oversight of the Emergency Food Assistance Program—Final Report

Inspection / Evaluation · Department of Agriculture OIG · 2022-08-18 · about Department of Agriculture

Report

Title: COVID-19—Oversight of the Emergency Food Assistance Program—Final Report
Submitting OIG: Department of Agriculture OIG
Component agency: Department of Agriculture
Type: Inspection / Evaluation
Publication date: 2022-08-18

Summary

In our final report, we determined what TEFAP flexibilities were available to States during the pandemic and FNS’ oversight of the States and Eligible Recipient Agencies’ compliance with administrative fund requirements.

Recommendations (4)

#	Status	Text
1	Closed	Establish and implement written procedures for State agencies to submit and receive approval for any requested changes in program operations or administration.
2	Closed	Work with the regional offices to confirm that the State plans with verbal requests or verbal approvals reflect current operations, and FNS approves these plans in writing, as required.
3	Closed	Perform a comprehensive review of the TEFAP program-specific ME module to ensure it provides clear instructions for retaining documentation in accordance with the National ME guidance documentation requirements and, based on this review, revise the ME…
4	Closed	Provide the ME reviewers and regional office supervisors with training to ensure the ME reviews are performed consistently and in accordance with the FNS National ME Review Guidance.

Source

Authoritative: oversight.gov report page
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