Meaning that grant recipients ’ allocations from the $ 1 billion supplemental today are based on the remaining amount of funding appropriated by Congress totaling $ 6.1 billion in LIHEAP funding for FFY 2023 .
Thus , the amount of funding grant recipients receive from today ’ s release may not be identical to what each received when
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HHS released the first $ 1 billion supplemental in November .
This $ 1 billion in disaster supplemental funding is documented as LIHEAP grant number : 23 *** LIEE [**** will include the specific grant recipient number ] and Common Accounting Number ( CAN ): G993135 on the Notice of Award ( NOA ) letter being issued to each current LIHEAP grant recipient for FFY 2023 . Grant recipients can download these NOA letters through their Grant Solutions Account- Grant Details Tab . Instructions on how to download these NOA letters is included in the following links : Microsoft Word - User Guide Recipient Grants List and Details GRANTS LIST . docx ( grantsolutions . gov ) and Non-Discretionary Grant Recipient Functionality in the Unified Experience Training ( vimeo . com ).
The award system — Payment Management System ( PMS )— shows the amount awarded with each funding release on the NOA line 20 called “ Total Amount of Federal Funds Obligated by This Action ”. It is based only on the CAN that is being used with that specific action . Meaning , each grant recipient will have two supplemental funding CANs in PMS for the $ 1 billion releases , but there will only be one grant award from which to draw down . That grant award number ends in “ LIEE ”. The drawdowns will be done proportionally by PMS from both $ 1B supplements . This means that a grant recipient will not be able to specify how much they want to draw down between the two $ 1 billion supplements / CANs .
There is no cumulative amount shown on any of those NOAs that would total all of the supplemental funding for this year ; for tracking and federal report preparation , each grant recipient will have to calculate and double-check that total against our funding tables which are attached to our Dear Colleague Letters . We anticipate that , post-award , that calculation will be auto-calculated for grant recipients on the LIHEAP Performance Data Form in OLDC .
All LIHEAP grant recipients are responsible for submitting a separate Federal Financial Report ( FFR ), Standard Form 425 , each year , for each LIHEAP grant award in the PMS . Therefore , today ’ s $ 1 billion supplemental release is part of the same grant award as the $ 1 billion supplement from the CR . LIHEAP grant recipients will need to account for both of their supplements from today ’ s release and the $ 1 billion CR supplement on one combined SF-425 using the grant award number ending in “ LIEE ”.
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