FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A report launched Tuesday by state officers on the disbursement of Kentucky`s twister reduction fund discovered that it despatched out about $239, 000 in mistaken funds.

The evaluate of the fund by State Auditor Mike Harmon`s workplace was requested by lawmakers in July after stories of misdirected funds from the fund. The Group Western Kentucky Twister Fund, which was sourced by non-public donations and gave money funds to twister victims, had disbursed about $42 million by the top of the fiscal 12 months in June, the report stated.

The mistaken funds represented a 0.57% error charge, the auditor`s workplace stated.

The report stated officers with the Kentucky Public Safety Cupboard, which dealt with the distribution of funds, had been “conscious of their oversight obligations” and put management mechanisms in place to make sure the monies had been despatched solely to eligible people.

A separate evaluate by the inspector basic within the state`s Finance and Administration Cupboard stated the funds had been “managed correctly,” in line with a media launch from the cupboard on Tuesday.

“After an almost four-month evaluate, we discovered that the funds had been managed with full transparency and in accordance with the regulation,” the discharge stated.

The auditor`s report discovered the mistaken funds included duplicates, funds despatched to ineligible individuals and overpayments. Nearly all of the mistaken funds had been $1,000 secondary funds to victims. These Second Help funds had an error charge of simply over 2%, the report stated.

The auditors additionally checked out a flood reduction fund arrange after the japanese Kentucky flooding in 2022, however that evaluate discovered no misguided funds.

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Photograph: Voluteers assist Martha Thomas, second from left, salvage possessions from her destroyed house, within the aftermath of tornadoes that tore via the area, in Mayfield, Ky., Dec. 13, 2021. (AP Photograph/Gerald Herbert, File)

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