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Allowable Costs

Program Income

There are very specific rules (in Health and Human Services Uniform Administrative Requirements in 45 CFR 75) about program income, including the costs of generating income and how that income may be used. First, if your award (or approved budget)

Paula McElwee October 28, 2020October 26, 2020 Allowable Costs, Finances, Technical Assistance No Comments Read more

How can CARES Act dollars to CILs be spent?

First a little background. What are the CARES Act Funds? The CIL CARES Act funding went to the federally funded (Part C) centers for direct response to the COVID-19 crisis among people with disabilities in their service area. They have

Paula McElwee August 12, 2020August 12, 2020 Allowable Costs, Finances, Regulations No Comments Read more

A follow up question on policies supporting your CARES Act decisions

The questions started as soon as the money did. ACL has published a comprehensive Frequently Asked Questions document that covers most of them. If you go to our site it is an alphabetical list of resources under ACL FAQs. Everything

Paula McElwee May 20, 2020May 21, 2020 ACL Guidance, Allowable Costs, Compliance review No Comments Read more

CARES Act funds for Part C centers — Spend wisely

The CARES Act funds for COVID-19 relief became available to Part C centers this past week. I would like to suggest some things to think about before you begin spending. If you plan well, your reporting and documentation will be

Paula McElwee April 27, 2020August 3, 2020 ACL Guidance, Allowable Costs, Consumer Goals, Emergency Preparedness, Finances 2 Comments Read more

Are Advertising and Public Relations costs allowed?

How can I distinguish between unallowable advertising and outreach? Can I call promotional giveaways outreach? While advertising is one of those categories that is on the list of those not allowed with federal funds, not all advertising is unallowable. Uniform

Paula McElwee February 19, 2020February 19, 2020 Allowable Costs, Finances No Comments Read more

Exciting News and an Introduction

I am pleased to announce that John Heveron is joining us as an expert contributor to this blog. John has worked with us in providing financial training and technical assistance to CILs and SILCs for a number of years. He

Paula McElwee December 6, 2019December 6, 2019 Allowable Costs, Finances, Technical Assistance No Comments Read more

New fiscal director’s questions

As the new finance person for a center, I have some questions that have come up over the past few weeks that I’d appreciate getting your input on. Currently allocations are based on wages paid by the grant that the

Paula McElwee September 19, 2019September 18, 2019 Allowable Costs, Finances, Regulations No Comments Read more

Can a center or SILC earn interest on federal funds?

The CILs are allowed to collect interest on federal funds, but if there is interest, the money isn’t being applied to its purpose, so that is discouraged. The expectation is that the money passes through just in time to pay

Paula McElwee June 20, 2019June 20, 2019 Allowable Costs, Finances No Comments Read more

Can we buy T-shirts with our grant and sell them?

Can we buy T-shirts with our grant and sell them?

Question: Do you know of any rule or federal law that prohibits us at the State level (SILC) from selling T-shirts or doing any other type of fundraising or collecting donations to our organization. Our funding is minuscule and we

Paula McElwee May 10, 2019May 10, 2019 Allowable Costs, Youth No Comments Read more

Are indirect costs the same as administrative costs?

Question: I am interested in your thoughts on something. I know we’ve always said that the indirect costs are not the same as G&A. However, when we submit the proposal we have to include the statement of functional expenses from

Paula McElwee February 23, 2019February 5, 2019 Allowable Costs, Finances No Comments Read more
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