OLA Performance Audit — DHS Grant Award Processes (April 2024)

Source: Office of the Legislative Auditor, Minnesota · Document date: 2024-04-15 · Type: Audit Report

OLA Program Evaluation Division audit of how DHS awards competitive grants. Documents conflicts of interest in award decisions, weak documentation requirements, and inadequate post-award monitoring across multiple DHS grant programs. Source URL is the OLA index page; the report's permanent URL slug had not been confirmed at vault publication.

Significance: Companion document to the January 2026 BHA grants audit (doc-046). Together the two reports establish a consistent OLA finding pattern: structural weaknesses in DHS grant-award and grant-monitoring processes that enabled the revolving-door cases documented in the project.

Linked investigations

revolving door analysis
grants to fraud
grant monitoring
grant recipient red flags

Tags: OLA, audit, grant award, DHS, conflict of interest, monitoring