United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office General Government Division author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 1999-09-29 monographic deposited born digital 16 p. GA 1.13:T-GGD-99-185 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-T-GGD-99-185 P0b002ee1803a4bc2 f:gg99185t DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-23 GAOREPORTS-T-GGD-99-185 machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-T-GGD-99-185 T-GGD-99-185 Administrative errors Internal controls Statistical data Grant administration Reporting requirements Eligibility criteria Legal aid Data integrity LSC Case Service Reporting System Testimony GGD The Legal Services Corporation (LSC), operating through grantees, provides legal assistance in civil matters to low-income persons. In the past year, LSC's Office of Inspector General and GAO have cited misreporting by grantees on both the number of cases they closed in 1997 and the number they had open at the end of that year. The accuracy of the data is important because LSC has used case statistics to seek higher funding and Congress has considered these statistics in setting funding for LSC. This testimony summarizes the September 1999 GAO report, GAO/GGD-99-183, which determined (1) what efforts LSC and its grantees have made to correct problems with case service reporting and (2) whether these efforts are likely to resolve the case reporting problems that occurred in 1997. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-T-GGD-99-185/html/GAOREPORTS-T-GGD-99-185.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-T-GGD-99-185/pdf/GAOREPORTS-T-GGD-99-185.pdf GAO/T-GGD-99-185 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-T-GGD-99-185 Testimony GAO/T-GGD-99-185; Legal Services Corporation: More Needs to be Done to; Administrative errors Internal controls Statistical data Grant administration Reporting requirements Eligibility criteria Legal aid Data integrity LSC Case Service Reporting System