Reports

The objective of this desk review is to evaluate Village of Atmautluak's documentation supporting the uses of its Coronavirus Relief Fund proceeds as reported in GrantSolutions and to assess risk of unallowable use of funds. The scope of our review will include obligation and expenditure data for the period of March 1, 2020 through December 31, 2021.

The objective of this desk review is to evaluate Village of Wainwright's documentation supporting the uses of its Coronavirus Relief Fund proceeds as reported in GrantSolutions and to assess risk of unallowable use of funds. The scope of our review will include obligation and expenditure data for the period of March 1, 2020 through December 31, 2021.

The objective of this desk review is to review Native Village of Kwigillingok's documentation supporting the uses of its Coronavirus Relief Fund (CRF) proceeds and to assess risk of unallowable use of funds. The scope of our review will include obligation and expenditure data for the period of March 1, 2020 through December 31, 2022.

The objective of this desk review is to evaluate Native Village of Kiana’s documentation supporting the uses of its Coronavirus Relief Fund (CRF) proceeds and to assess risk of unallowable use of funds. The scope of our review will include obligation and expenditure data for the period of March 1, 2020 through December 31, 2022.

The objective of this desk review is to review Pedro Bay Village’s documentation supporting the uses of its Coronavirus Relief Fund proceeds and to assess risk of unallowable use of funds. The scope of our review will include obligation and expenditure data for the period of March 1, 2020 through December 31, 2021.

The objective of this desk review is to review New Stuyahok Village’s documentation supporting the uses of its Coronavirus Relief Fund (CRF) proceeds and to assess risk of unallowable use of funds. The scope of our review will include obligation and expenditure data for the period of March 1, 2020 through December 31, 2022.

The Pandemic Response Accountability Committee (PRAC) is charged with conducting oversight of pandemic-related spending to prevent and detect fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement. In May 2021, we engaged MITRE, a not-for-profit federally funded research and development center, to conduct an independent study of lessons learned from the administration of pandemic-related emergency funding for unemployment insurance (UI) benefit programs in a sample of states. The objective of this study was to increase understanding of how states implemented pandemic UI benefit programs and how their...

The PRAC examined whether the Small Business Administration (SBA) Phase III fraud controls, which were applied to process Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans in 2021, would have likely detected the earlier fraud found in PPP criminal cases. SBA designed the PPP Phase III controls to address significant fraud identified in the earlier phases of the program and some were later used by the SBA in its Restaurant Revitalization Fund (RRF) program.