Finding 1165667 (2025-002)

2025-002 Child Nutrition Cluster Assistance Listing No. 10.553, 10.555 Grant No. 088-080 Condition: Compliance item E1 states that the district selects and verifies the required sample of approved free and reduced price applications and makes the appropriate changes to status based on the verification results. Criteria: The District was required to verify 2 applications. Once the students were selected, no documents or follow up was made in the verification process to determine if the applications were correct. Effect: The District could have received more federal funds for these students than was allowed. Questioned Costs: Unknown. The costs could not be determined because we could not determine the number of free or reduced meals consumed by the students who were not verified. Cause: Oversight by the District. Recommendation: The District should perform verification procedures as required by regulations and retain all documentation required. View of Responsible Officials & Planned Corrective Action: The Westran School District will set up a corrective action to have the verification process completed by the Food Service Director and then verified by the central office to ensure proper compliance with application verification.