Finding Text
1. FINDING NUMBER: 2024 - 002
2. THIS FINDING IS: New
3. Federal Program Name and Year: Child Nutrition Cluster
4. Project No.: 4299-00, 4210-00, 4210-BT, 4210-LF, 4210-SC, 4220-00
5. CFDA No.: 10.555, 10.553
6. Passed Through: Illinois State Board of Education
7. Federal Agency: U.S. Department of Agriculture
8. Criteria or specific requirement (including statutory, regulatory, or other citation): Monthly SNP Claims for reimbursement should match the total daily count reports of meals for the month.
9. Condition: The District submitted a claim for meals higher than the count actually served for the month due to a clerical error. The District did not have someone, other than the preparer of the monthly claim, review the claim before it was submitted to ensure its accuracy.
10. Questioned Costs: $8.74
11. Context: Selected one month of meal counts and reviewed the month to make sure meal counts submitted matched counted number of meals served.
12. Effect: The District is not in compliance with requesting the correct number of meals to be reimbursed.
13. Cause: The District did not have someone other than the preparer of the monthly claim review the claim before it was submitted to ensure its accuracy.
14. Recommendation: We recommend that the District implement a review process over monthly SNP claims to ensure the claim being submitted to ISBE matches the total of daily meal counts for the month.
15. Management's response: Management will review and implement procedures to ensure the claim forms are filled out correctly.