# COVID-19: The Employment and Training Administration Needs to Improve Oversight of Grants Awarded in New Jersey
> **Audit** by Department of Labor OIG · 2023-09-28
> *About: Department of Labor*
## Report
- **Title:** COVID-19: The Employment and Training Administration Needs to Improve Oversight of Grants Awarded in New Jersey
- **Submitting OIG:** Department of Labor OIG
- **Component agency:** Department of Labor
- **Type:** Audit
- **Publication date:** 2023-09-28

## Recommendations

- **Rec 1** (Open): We recommend the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training: Develop and implement risk tolerance for the amount of participants being served under the WIOA Adult, Youth, and Dislocated Workers program.
- **Rec 2** (Closed): We recommend the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training: Regularly monitor Bergen Community College’s performance and provide the necessary assistance to ensure $7.2 million in remaining funds are used as intended by the…
- **Rec 3** (Closed): We recommend the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training: Develop and implement guidance to specifically identify the high risk associated with low enrollment levels in combination with the high burn rate of grant funds .
- **Rec 4** (Closed): We recommend the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training: Resolve the $265,040 in questioned costs associated with ineligible participants and ineligible payments
- **Rec 5** (Open): We recommend the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training: Establish and implement a plan to improve monitoring activities to ensure grantees and sub-recipients are properly documenting eligibility.
- **Rec 6** (Closed): We recommend the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training: Establish and implement a plan to increase the level of technical assistance and monitoring for grantees and sub-recipients to ensure they properly administer contracts…
- **Rec 7** (Closed): We recommend the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training: Resolve the $6.9 million in questioned costs associated with unaccounted expenditures and assist the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development in…
## Source
- [oversight.gov report page](https://www.oversight.gov/reports/audit/covid-19-employment-and-training-administration-needs-improve-oversight-grants)
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