Follow-up Review of State Agency Comments on Audit of Title IV-E Payments to Child Placing Agencies,

Department of Health and Human Services SEPTEMBER 1997 A-05-97-00056 ATION INDIANA -DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH HUMAN SERVICES MemorandumSeptember 24, 1997Regional Inspector General for Audit Services Region VFollow-up Review of State Agency's Comments on our Audit of Payments to Child Placing Agencies Under the Title IV-E Foster Care Program in Indiana CIN: A-05-97-00056Linda J. CarsonRegional Hub DirectorAdministration for Children and Families This report provides you with our analysis of additional we received from the Indianadated August 7, 1997, Family and Social Services Administration (State agency) in reference to the above audit of Title IV-E payments made to The State agency'schild placing agencies in Indiana. additional comments followed their interim response which was A-05-96-00055), issued onappended to our final report (CIN: The State agency has not provided any additional information that would cause us to change our In the prior audit report, we disclosed that four child placing agencies retained a portion of the foster care maintenance payments received from the State agency to meet their operating the Title IV-E program was overcharged (Federal share) for services not eligible for In addition, we questionedreimbursement as maintenance costs. $442,161 paid to a for-profit child placing agency which is not eligible for Title IV-E reimbursement. Although the State agency concurred that the ...