Audit  Audit of the Commonwealth Corporation

In accordance with Section 12 of Chapter 11 of the Massachusetts General Laws, the Office of the State Auditor has conducted a performance audit of certain activities of Commonwealth Corporation (CommCorp) for the period July 1, 2020 through June 30, 2022.

The purpose of our audit was to determine the following:

• whether CommCorp ensured that YouthWorks grant recipients met the program participant eligibility and reporting requirements in Sections V and IX (for fiscal year 2021) and Sections III and VII (for fiscal year 2022) of CommCorp’s YouthWorks “Program Administration and Management Guide”;
• whether CommCorp tracked each YouthWorks program participant’s employment status after the completion of each program cycle to assess whether the program achieved its goal of helping program participants secure unsubsidized employment, in accordance with Section VIII (for fiscal year 2021) and Section VII (for fiscal year 2022) of CommCorp’s YouthWorks “Program Administration and Management Guide” and Section 116(b)(2)(A) of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act of 2014; and
• whether CommCorp ensured that its employees completed cybersecurity awareness training, in accordance with Sections 6.2.3 and 6.2.4 of the Executive Office of Technology Services and Security’s (EOTSS’s) Information Security Risk Management Standard IS.010.

Below is a summary of our findings and recommendations, with links to each page listed.