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SNAP Administrative Costs

Report Information

Date Issued
Report Number:
27601-0003-22
Report Type
Audit
Component
Food and Nutrition Service
Description

OIG evaluated Food and Nutrition Service's (FNS) controls over Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) administrative costs, with a specific focus on whether States with county-administered programs were effectively and efficiently controlling costs and minimizing variances.

Joint Report
No
Agency Wide
Yes (agency-wide)
Questioned Costs
$3,575,424
Funds for Better Use
$111,399,656

Recommendations

Review all SNAP administrative cost unliquidated obligations currently outstanding for States in the Western Region to ensure that they represent actual obligations for valid needs.

Require CDSS to collect unliquidated obligation data from the counties and report these data on its quarterly and final Federal financial reports.

Revise FNS IPAS-212 Operating Procedures to require the regional offices to review independent source data, such as specific contracts or reports from the grantee’s financial system, during the regional office reviews of unliquidated obligations to ensure that they represent valid needs.

Develop standardized guidance and procedures for ensuring the States utilize a process that reports expenditures in the proper fiscal year.

Identify all States that do not utilize a process for reporting expenditures in the proper fiscal year and require those States to develop and submit a plan to FNS for approval detailing the process they will use to collect and report expenditures in the proper fiscal year.