Programs Subject to Erroneous Payments (EP) Review Exceeding Income-Eligibility Ceiling
During FY2004, 50 programs/delegates were subject to an Erroneous Payments (EP) review consistent with the requirements of the Improper Payments Act and subject to a statistically valid sampling methodology approved by the Office of Management and Budget. Head Start program managers, fiscal managers and consultants will find this sampling helpful in identifying eligibility violations with regard to erroneous payments.
Programs Subject to Erroneous Payments (EP) Review Exceeding Income-Eligibility Ceiling,* by Source
* During FY2004, 50 programs/delegates were subject to an Erroneous Payments (EP) review consistent with the requirements of the Improper Payments Act and subject to a statistically valid sampling methodology approved by the Office of Management and Budget. The first bar chart includes all 50 such programs. The second bar chart specifies the share of the 50 EP programs exceeding the income-eligibility ceiling as identified during the EP review process. The third bar chart specifies the share of the 50 EP programs exceeding the income-eligibility ceiling as identified in the Head Start Review Reports for the respective EP programs (i.e., the report contained an area of noncompliance citing 45 CFR 1305.4(b)(1 or 2)). This analysis reveals the EP review process identified substantially more income-eligibility ceiling violations than contemporaneous monitoring reviews of the same programs.