Legal Services Corporation: Improvements Needed in Governance, Accountability, and Grants Management and Oversight.

Publication: General Accounting Office Reports & Testimony

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GAO-08-833T May 22, 2008

This testimony discuss GAO's recent reviews of Legal Services Corporation's (LSC) governance, accountability and grants management practices. LSC's mission is to make federal funding available to provide legal assistance in civil matters to low-income people throughout the United States on everyday legal problems. LSC pursues this mission by providing financial assistance, mostly through grants to legal service providers (grant recipients or grantees) who serve low-income members of the community who would otherwise not be able to afford legal assistance (clients). Established by a federal charter in 1974 as a federally funded, private nonprofit corporation, LSC is highly dependent on federal appropriations for its operations. LSC received $348.6 million in appropriations for fiscal year 2007, which made up about 99 percent of its total funding. In 2007, LSC served clients through 137 grantees with...

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