Coordinate with CPD program staff to clarify the (1) roles and responsibilities of the CRO, HCCRT, and CPD’s risk management staff with regard to identifying, assessing, and mitigating fraud risks and (2) purpose and role of HUD’s ERM processes and program office risk management processes with regard to identifying, assessing, and mitigating fraud risks.
Publication Report
2022-FO-0801 | Octubre 12, 2021
Fraud Risk Inventory for the CDBG and ESG CARES Act Funds
We conducted this engagement in coordination with the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee (PRAC) to gain an understanding of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) fraud risk management practices and develop an inventory of... másRelated Recommendations
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- Status2022-FO-0801-001-BOpenClosedSummary
Complete a program-specific fraud risk assessment and risk profile for the CDBG and ESG programs, with emphasis on CARES Act funding, and replicate this process to create program-specific fraud assessments and risk profiles for other CPD programs.
- Status2022-FO-0801-001-COpenClosedSummary
Consider OIG’s fraud risk inventory to improve CPD’s own fraud risk assessments and develop a program-specific fraud risk map and compendium.
- Summary
Implement efforts to increase the awareness of fraud at all levels (headquarters, field offices, grantees, subrecipients, etc.), including but not limited to regularly publishing articles on known fraud schemes and identified instances of fraud in periodic newsletters or on CPD’s intranet website, providing recurring fraud risk trainings to HUD employees and grantees and working with OIG to develop materials to support fraud awareness.
- Status2022-FO-0801-001-EOpenClosedSummary
Develop and implement a fraud risk checklist or other instrument as part of CPD’s monitoring oversight requirements, to be completed as part of each remote and onsite monitoring review.
- Status2022-FO-0801-001-FOpenClosedSummary
Develop and implement a fraud analytics strategy using available data, including but not limited to data and information collected during the grantee risk assessment and monitoring processes, to begin conducting data analyses to identify potential fraud risks for further review.