Audit of the Office of Justice Programs Victim Assistance Grants Awarded to the New Hampshire Department of Justice, Concord, New Hampshire

• NCJ Number: 309380
• Date Published: September 2023
• Length: 27 pages

Annotation

This paper reports on the Justice Department’s audit of how the New Hampshire Department of Justice designed and implemented its crime victim assistance program; it describes the Office of the Inspector General’s audit approach, objectives, results, conclusions, and recommendations; and includes four appendix documents.

Abstract

This audit report describes the Office of the Inspector General’s (OIG’s) evaluation of how the New Hampshire Department of Justice (New Hampshire DOJ) designed and implemented its crime victim assistance program. The document discusses the OIG’s audit approach, which involved an assessment of performance in the following areas of grant management: program planning and execution; program requirements and performance reporting; financial management; and monitoring of subrecipients. The report presents audit reports, conclusions, and recommendations. Results from the audit indicated that the award agreement between New Hampshire DOJ and a subrecipient also acting as a pass-through entity lacked mention of single audit requirements that would ensure that the entity fulfills its responsibilities to monitor lower-tier subrecipients; it also found that a subrecipient did not comply with a subaward special condition requiring the subrecipient to report potential fraud, waste, and abuse to the U.S. OIG; and the audit identified an opportunity to enhance New Hampshire DOJ’s written policies. The four appendixes include: Objectives, Scope, and Methodology; the New Hampshire DOJ response to the draft Audit Report; the Office of Justice Programs’ response to the draft Audit Report; and the OIG’s analysis and summary of actions needed to close the Audit Report