Review of New York temporary assistance payments
Healthcare Auditing Weekly, November 20, 2007
The OIG found that New York State made Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Basic Assistance Payments (TANF) that did not meet government requirements. New York also did not correctly document payment and eligibility determinations, according to a recent OIG audit report. The OIG estimated the overall improper payment rate was 28.5% of the federal dollars and 46% of the number of payments made for basic assistance during the audit period.
The OIG recommended that the State agency:
- Use the results of the audit to ensure compliance with federal and state TANF requirements
- Conduct quality control reviews of TANF eligibility and payment processes
- Recalculate assistance budgets for recipients that received improperly calculated payments
- Determine eligibility of all recipients from the review as improperly enrolled in the TANF problem, and ensure that further assistance is denied for those who are ineligible
- Be certain that TANF basic assistance expenditures are correctly reported in reports to the ACF
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