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Long weekend coming up so we made it our business to make sure you had enough reading material. So go ahead and curl up on your hammock/beach chair/couch with these two briefs.
A happy, safe fourth to all.
Attached are the following two Issue Briefs:
DOT MOE Requirement Affects Redistribution of ARRA Funds
Issue Brief 11-25
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (P.L. 111-5, ARRA)
established a transportation maintenance-of-effort (MOE) requirement for
states to ensure that they did not use ARRA funds to replace state
funding for transportation. In November 2010, the Department of
Transportation (DOT) collected preliminary data regarding states’
compliance with the MOE requirement. This data indicated that numerous
states did not meet their MOE amounts and, depending on final data, may
be ineligible for the August 2011 redistribution of unobligated ARRA
transportation funds.
USDA Releases FY 2010 SNAP Error Rates
Issue Brief 11-26
On June 16, 2011, the Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food and
Nutrition Service (FNS) released federal fiscal year (FY) 2010 error
rates for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). The
error rates indicate the percentage of SNAP benefit dollars that were
incorrectly issued to recipients. The combined national payment error
rate was 3.81% in FY 2010, a record low for the measure.
The 2002 Farm Bill (P.L. 107-171) authorized USDA to award performance bonuses to states with the best or most improved performance in the administration of SNAP based on states’ program error rates. It also included provisions for assigning penalties to states with extremely poor program performance and administration. This Issue Brief provides an overview of these regulations along with states’ FY 2010 error rates and performance bonuses.