Benton County just had a WIC audit and the supervisor salary
charged to the grant was denied because I was using an allocation method of her
time based on staff time as direct charge instead of indirect. This is
what I received,
” In this situation where a
supervisor is using the percentage that the subordinates spent on the federal
award to claim their own time on the grant does not reasonably reflect that
supervisor’s time on the grant, and that allocation method is not reasonable,
and therefore the supervisor’s salary/fringe are unallowable as a direct costs.
The supervisor’s time can only be charged to the salary/fringe line if it is
backed by time studies, dailies, or other documentation that shows the amount
of time the supervisor spent working on the WIC grant. If this supporting
documentation does not exists, then the supervisor’s time is an indirect cost
and should be included on the indirect line”.
My questions:
How do you charge Public Health
supervisor time to the grants, direct or indirect?
If direct, does the supervisor
enter time in your system to each grant or are you using some method of
allocation?
Peggy
Koscielniak | Fiscal Services
Supervisor |
Benton
County Human Services | PO Box 740 | Foley, MN 56329
320.968.5140
