![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Real Alternatives refused to provide information to allow DHS auditors to review reimbursements from the 3 percent fee or to provide any details on how the funds from the fee were used. Last September, DePasquale started an audit of the Department of Human Services’ (DHS) grant to Real Alternatives after a DHS audit revealed that Real Alternatives deducts a 3 percent “Program Development and Advancement Fee” from state reimbursements to its subcontracted service providers. “This egregious, admitted, violation of the grant should be the last straw that prompts state agencies to write and enforce tougher contracts.” “This is yet another example of the lack of oversight of state government grants that results in the wasting of tax dollars,” he said. “But, we need to make sure it doesn’t ever happen again. “We will never know how much money was taken out of the commonwealth nor how many Pennsylvania women and children may have been affected because this company channeled our tax dollars to other states,” DePasquale said. “It is just as outrageous that the state grant agreement was so weak that it allowed this practice to go on for decades siphoning funds intended to benefit Pennsylvania women experiencing crisis pregnancies. “It is outrageous that, by its own admission in court, Real Alternatives used hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvania taxpayer dollars to fund its activities in other states,” DePasquale said. 19, 2017) – Auditor General Eugene DePasquale today said his latest performance audit helped stop a decades-old practice where abortion alternative provider Real Alternatives used state funds to support activities outside of Pennsylvania. Auditor General DePasquale Says Audit Stopped Abuse of State Funds by Abortion Alternative Provider Real Alternatives Another example of a state agency providing weak contracts, poor oversight ![]()
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