February 8, 2024
On January 9, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced a Final Rule, entitled Safeguarding the Rights of Conscience as Protected by Federal [...]
February 8, 2024
The thousands of grant recipients that access their funds through the Department of Health and Human Services’ (“HHS”) Payment Management Services (“PMS”) are encouraged to assess their strategies to reduce cyber security [...]
January 23, 2024
Feldesman Leifer LLP has filed comments, authored by partners Nicole M. Bacon and Ted Waters, on the proposed changes to Head Start regulations (found here). The potential modifications add some positive changes [...]
November 28, 2023
When the Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”) released the proposed rule to update the Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards (“Uniform Guidance”), the Federal Register Notice [...]
November 17, 2023
On November 15, 2023, the Office of Head (OHS) Start issued a draft of the forthcoming Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) which includes a number of significant changes to the Head [...]
November 7, 2023
On November 6, 2023, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released its new General Compliance Program Guidance (“GCPG”). The GCPG serves as [...]
October 5, 2023
OMB Issues Proposed Rule for Federal Awards - Act Before December 4, 2023 The Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”) has officially released the proposed rule to update the Uniform Administrative Requirements, [...]
September 25, 2023
On Friday, September 22, 2023, the Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”) announced substantial pending changes to the Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards (“Uniform Guidance”), codified [...]
August 31, 2023
The Department of the Treasury released an advanced copy of its new Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Fund (“SLFRF”) Interim Final Rule, which implements new eligible uses for awards to States, [...]
August 1, 2023
Starting August 1st, employers who participate in E-Verify may use a new remote verification procedure to examine employee documents to complete or reverify the Form I-9. During the COVID-19 public health emergency, [...]