Webinars

Please join USAC to learn how to avoid common findings of High Cost beneficiary audits.

In this session, USAC’s High Cost and Internal Audit staff will discuss the most common carrier errors discovered during High Cost beneficiary audits conducted in fiscal year 2024, including:

• Improper reporting of ineligible items/unallowable expenses (i.e. expenses not used for High Cost purposes)
• Inadequate documentation, inaccurate data and misclassified assets, expenses and/or liabilities
• Improperly recorded affiliate transactions
• Improper allocation methodology to classify/separate regulated and non-regulated activities, and inaccurate/misclassified access line and loop counts
• Inaccurate calculation of depreciation