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New audit reveals Wisconsin gained $9.6 million in aid last year
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by Associated Press
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Wisconsin agencies received about $9.6 billion in federal aid last year, according to a state audit released Tuesday.
The state departments of Health and Family Services, Workforce Development, Transportation and Public Instruction along with the University of Wisconsin System administered about 95 percent of the money, the Legislative Audit Bureau’s report found.
Health and Family Services administered close to $4 billion, the largest amount of any agency. Nearly $3 billion of that went for medical assistance programs.
Workforce Development, meanwhile, administered about $1.5 billion that went for unemployment benefits, child care subsidies and vocational rehabilitation programs.
The UW System disbursed $1.3 billion in federal funds, including almost $650 million in student financial aid and about $513 million in research grants.
The audit found most state agencies generally have adequate policies and procedures for administering federal money, but still found some shortcomings.
The study said 10 inmates improperly received food stamp benefits and UW-Eau Claire and UW-Milwaukee committed reporting errors.
The Department of Public Instruction isn’t meeting matching requirements for a federal grant to help poor students, the audit added. The agency had to return nearly $2.1 million in grant money to the federal government last year because it didn’t meet the match requirements, the audit said.
Federal aid to the state has increased slightly over the past five years, the study found, from $9.1 billion in the year that ended June 30, 2003 to $9.6 billion in the year that ended this past June 30.
