# SBA's Internal Controls to Prevent Shuttered Venue Operators Grants to Ineligible Applicants
> **Inspection / Evaluation** by Small Business Administration OIG · 2023-10-25
> *About: Small Business Administration*
## Report
- **Title:** SBA's Internal Controls to Prevent Shuttered Venue Operators Grants to Ineligible Applicants
- **Submitting OIG:** Small Business Administration OIG
- **Component agency:** Small Business Administration
- **Type:** Inspection / Evaluation
- **Publication date:** 2023-10-25

## Summary

This report presents the results of our inspection to assess the U.S. Small Business Administration’s (SBA) Shuttered Venue Operators Grant (SVOG) controls to prevent disbursements to ineligible entities. Specifically, our review focused on general eligibility requirements applicable to all SVOG applicants and venue-specific requirements applicable to live venue operators.SBA delayed launching the SVOG application portal for over 2 weeks in April 2021 because of technical issues.


## Recommendations

- **Rec 1** (Open): To address the issues identified, we recommend the Administrator direct the Associate Administrator for the Office of Disaster Recovery and Resilience to reevaluate eligibility for the 47 applicants we questioned and recover grant funds from the…
- **Rec 2** (Open): To address the issues identified, we recommend the Administrator direct the Associate Administrator for the Office of Disaster Recovery and Resilience to implement additional controls to ensure that, during the monitoring, auditing, and compliance…
## Source
- [oversight.gov report page](https://www.oversight.gov/reports/sbas-internal-controls-prevent-shuttered-venue-operators-grants-ineligible-applicants)
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