Office of the Inspector General Department of the Treasury

State Small Business Credit Initiative: North Carolina's Use of Federal Funds for Capital Access and Other Credit Support Programs Office of the Inspector General Department of the Treasury

We determined that North Carolina appropriately used most of the $4.9 million in SSBCI funds obligated or expended that we tested, but contributed $6,690 to a reserve fund under the Capital Access Program for a loan that refinanced one previously made to the borrower by the same lender. Such refinancings are prohibited by the Act and constitute a misuse of funds. Prior to the transfer of SSBCI funds, North Carolina collected two separate documents from the lender attesting that the loan being enrolled was not made for a prohibited purpose.