Northeast Florida Community Action Agency, Inc., did not Always Charge Allowable Costs to the Community Services Block Grant-Recovery Act Program.

摘要

The Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) program was authorized by the Community Opportunities, Accountability, and Training and Educational Services Act of 1998, P.L. No. 105-285 (the CSBG Act), to provide funds to alleviate poverty in communities. Within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Community Services administers the CSBG program. The CSBG program funds a State-administered network of more than 1,000 local Community Action Agencies (CAAs) that create, coordinate, and deliver programs and services to low-income Americans. The CAAs provide services and activities addressing employment, education, housing, nutrition, emergency services, health, and better use of available income. The CSBG program awarded $620 million in fiscal year (FY) 2007, $643 million in FY 2008, $1.7 billion in FY 2009, and $689 million in FY 2010. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of2009, P.L. No. 111-5 (Recovery Act), enacted February 17,2009, provided an additional $1 billion to ACF for the CSBG program. CSBG Recovery Act funds were distributed to CAAs using an existing statutory formula. The primary objective of the CSBG Recovery Act was to provide assistance to States and local communities, working through a network of community action agencies and other neighborhood-based organizations, for the reduction of poverty, revitalization of low-income communities, and empowerment of low-income families and individuals in rural and urban areas to become fully self-sufficient.