Delays in closing out a grant within a year of its performance period can arise due to unresolved legal, financial, or administrative issues. Common challenges include pending litigation, unspent funds, and incomplete certification of grant deliverables.
Key Insights
- Pending litigation or appeals and incomplete legal oversight of terminated grants can delay the closeout process.
- Unspent grant funds and unpaid allowable costs due to late invoices or reporting issues often require additional time to resolve.
- Final certification by authorized grant officials may be pending if all programmatic or financial requirements have not been fully satisfied.
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You may come across situations that may impede your ability to close out a grant effectively within one year after the end date of performance. Litigation or an appeal of a court decision is pending. There may be excess unspent grant funds that have not yet been formally deobligated.
All allowable costs have not yet been paid due to late arrival of invoices or other problems, perhaps a bottleneck, late or delayed reporting by sub-recipients. For a terminated grant, all terminated actions overseen by legal counsel have not been completed. Perhaps there's a hang-in program or a single audit.
The grantee is still in progress. The grant officials with the required level of delegated authority have not certified that all actions or deliverables pertaining to the grant have been met or satisfied.