20 C.F.R. § 641.856 What functions and activities constitute costs of administration?
Title 20 - Employees' Benefits
(a) The costs of administration are that allocable portion of necessary and reasonable allowable costs of recipients and first-tier subrecipients (as defined in paragraph (c) of this section) that are associated with those specific functions identified in paragraph (b) of this section and that are not related to the direct provision of programmatic services specified in §641.864. These costs may be both personnel and non-personnel and both direct and indirect costs. (b) The costs of administration are the costs associated with: (1) Performing overall general administrative and coordination functions, including: (i) Accounting, budgeting, financial, and cash management functions; (ii) Procurement and purchasing functions; (iii) Property management functions; (iv) Personnel management functions; (v) Payroll functions; (vi) Coordinating the resolution of findings arising from audits, reviews, investigations, and incident reports; (vii) Audit functions; (viii) General legal services functions; and (ix) Developing systems and procedures, including information systems, required for these administrative functions; (2) Oversight and monitoring responsibilities related to administrative functions; (3) Costs of goods and services used for administrative functions of the program, including goods and services such as rental or purchase of equipment, utilities, office supplies, postage, and rental and maintenance of office space; (4) Travel costs incurred for official business in carrying out administrative activities or the overall management of the program; and (5) Costs of information systems related to administrative functions (for example, personnel, procurement, purchasing, property management, accounting, and payroll systems) including the purchase, systems development, and operating costs of such systems. (OAA sec. 502(c)(4)). (c) First-tier subrecipients are those subrecipients that receive SCSEP funds directly from an SCSEP recipient and perform the following activities for all participants: (1) Eligibility determination; (2) Participant assessment; (3) Development of and placement into community service opportunities.
Title 20: Employees' Benefits
PART 641—PROVISIONS GOVERNING THE SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICE EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM
Subpart H—Administrative Requirements
§ 641.856 What functions and activities constitute costs of administration?
