Audit of the Office of Justice Programs State of Washington Victim Assistance Funds Subawarded to the Young Women's Christian Association of Seattle, King County, and Snohomish County, Seattle, Washington

Ensure that the YWCA of Seattle establishes written policies and procedures to accurately track victims served with VOCA grant funding.

Ensure that the YWCA of Seattle implements controls to ensure its subaward transactions are accurately tracked, to include routinely reconciling any subsidiary ledgers utilized to the program's general ledger.

Remedy $18,804 in unapproved salary and fringe benefit costs charged to the subaward.

Remedy $24,810 in unallowable gift card purchases charged to the VOCA subaward.

Remedy $24,810 in unsupported gift card purchases for which the YWCA of Seattle could not produce adequate documentation.

Ensure that the YWCA of Seattle establishes controls to ensure expenditures charged to the subawards are allowable and adequately supported.

Work with the Washington COM to ensure its policies and procedures for collecting and reporting subrecipient performance data align with the OVC's guidance, to include communicating clear instructions to subrecipients on how to report VOCA grant-funded performance data into the Washington COM's victim tracking database.