United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office Health, Education, and Human Services Division author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 2000-06-30 monographic deposited born digital 28 p. GA 1.13:HEHS-00-107 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-HEHS-00-107 P0b002ee18038077f f:he00107 DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-24 GAOREPORTS-HEHS-00-107 machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-HEHS-00-107 HEHS-00-107 Aid for the elderly Elderly persons Appropriated funds Formula grants State-administered programs Grant administration Grants to states Title III Challenge Grant Letter Report HEHS

Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Administration on Aging's (AOA) method for distributing Older Americans Act title III grants, focusing on the: (1) extent to which AOA's distribution of funding differs from the distribution that would take place if funds were allocated according to the statute; and (2) effect of AOA's funding distribution method on states with more rapidly growing elderly populations.<p/>GAO noted that: (1) the AOA procedure for distributing title III funds results in unequal funding per elderly person across states to a much greater degree than would be the result using the statutory formula; (2) for example, using AOA's approach, Arizona's fiscal year (FY) 2000 funding per elderly person is 33 percent less than Iowa's, while strict adherence to the statute would result in a 5-percent difference; (3) moreover, under the AOA procedure, most states with above-average growth in number of elderly residents received less funding than called for by the statute; (4) for example, for FY 2000, Florida received $6.8 million less, California, $3.8 million less, Texas, $3.7 million less, and Arizona, $3.2 million less; (5) in total, using the statutory rather than the AOA method would redirect $27 million of Older Americans Act title III FY 2000 state allotment funds (3.3 percent) to states that have experienced above-average growth in their elderly populations; and (6) when GAO first reported on this issue in 1994, the amount that would have been redirected using the statutory method in FY 1993 would have been $17 million (2.2 percent of that year's title III allotments). https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-HEHS-00-107/html/GAOREPORTS-HEHS-00-107.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-HEHS-00-107/pdf/GAOREPORTS-HEHS-00-107.pdf GAO/HEHS-00-107 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-HEHS-00-107 Letter Report GAO/HEHS-00-107; Title III, Older Americans Act: Administration on Aging; Aid for the elderly Elderly persons Appropriated funds Formula grants State-administered programs Grant administration Grants to states Title III Challenge Grant Title 42 Section 3024 42 U.S.C. 3024