We recommend that HUD’s Deputy Assistant Secretary for Single Family Housing ensure that the FHA Resource Center updates its training program to ensure that refresher training on housing discrimination is regularly provided to staff (such as monthly, quarterly, semiannually, etc.).
2024-BO-0001 | Diciembre 18, 2023
Opportunities Exist To Improve HUD’s FHA Resource Center’s Routing of Housing Discrimination Inquiries
Housing
- Status2024-BO-0001-001-BOpenClosedClosed on Diciembre 18, 2023
2024-FW-0002 | Diciembre 15, 2023
CPD Could Improve the Timing of Delivery of Disaster Recovery Funding
Community Planning and Development
- Status2024-FW-0002-001-AOpenClosed
We recommend that the Director of Disaster Recovery collect and record the number of days that it or other entities take to complete each milestone in the grant process.
- Status2024-FW-0002-001-BOpenClosed
We recommend that the Director of Disaster Recovery establish timing benchmarks for the milestones at each significant step in the allocation and award process based on actual data accumulated for the various grants.
- Status2024-FW-0002-001-COpenClosed
We recommend that the Director of Disaster Recovery take steps to ensure that the milestone point of allocation is formally defined and documented, to allow for accurate tracking of compliance with requirements.
2024-FO-0002 | Noviembre 13, 2023
Audit of FHA’s Fiscal Years 2023 and 2022 Financial Statements
Housing
- Status2024-FO-0002-001-AOpenClosedClosed on Agosto 27, 2024
Develop a plan and a timeline that ensures all due and payable partial claims are transferred to the FOC, and subsequently processed by the FOC.
- Status2024-FO-0002-001-BOpenClosedClosed on Junio 18, 2024
Develop and implement procedures to i) monitor the transfer of due and payable partial claims from NSC to the FOC for collection, ii) determine the financial statement impact of not referring due and payable partial claims to the FOC, and iii) decide when FHA will record a reclassification entry to accounts receivable for those due and payable partial claims that are not transferred to the FOC timely.
- Status2024-FO-0002-001-COpenClosedClosed on Abril 08, 2024
Consider accounting implications to the gross HECM loans receivable balance for the $20 million lost in security interests.
- Status2024-FO-0002-001-DOpenClosedClosed on Mayo 07, 2024
Record an adjusting entry to remove the duplicate $44 million from the gross HECM loans receivable balance as of September 30, 2023.
- Status2024-FO-0002-001-EOpenClosedClosed on Julio 11, 2024
Identify and remove all duplicate transactions from the accounting module and prevent future occurrences.
- Status2024-FO-0002-001-FOpenClosedClosed on Agosto 14, 2024
Develop and enhance training for servicing the HECM portfolio.
- Status2024-FO-0002-001-GOpenClosedClosed on Agosto 15, 2024
Develop corrective procedures to bring the HECM portfolio servicing current, initiate collection proceedings for due and payable loans, redeem the tax certificates for properties for which FHA lost its security interest, and implement a solution to monitor tax payments to prevent tax delinquencies and avoid FHA’s risk of loss in loan security interest.
2024-FW-1001 | Octubre 27, 2023
The Puerto Rico Department of Housing Should Enhance Its Fraud Risk Management Practices
Community Planning and Development
- Status2024-FW-1001-001-AOpenClosed
We recommend that the Deputy Assistant Secretary instruct PRDOH to implement a process to regularly conduct fraud risk assessments and determine a fraud risk profile. The fraud risk profile should include key findings and conclusions from the risk assessment, including the analysis of the types of fraud risks, their perceived likelihood and impact, risk tolerance, and the prioritization of risks.
- Status2024-FW-1001-001-BOpenClosedClosed on Septiembre 11, 2024
We recommend that the Deputy Assistant Secretary instruct PRDOH to improve fraud awareness initiatives, such as participating in organized antifraud conferences, reviewing the OIG’s Special Fraud Alerts, Bulletins, and Other Guidance, and attending fraud risk training tailored to the program’s fraud risk profile (including subrecipients).
- Status2024-FW-1001-001-COpenClosed
We recommend that the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Grant Programs evaluate PRDOH’s risk exposure and tolerance as part of HUD’s program-specific fraud risk assessment for disaster grant programs.
- Status2024-FW-1001-001-DOpenClosed
We recommend that the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Grant Programs coordinate with HUD’s Chief Risk Officer to (1) provide training and technical assistance to PRDOH with a focus on the design, implementation, and performance of fraud risk assessments, and (2) establish a fraud risk management framework for the organization.
- Status2024-FW-1001-001-EOpenClosed
We recommend that the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Grant Programs assess whether grantees have mature fraud risk management programs within the disaster recovery and mitigation programs.
- Status2024-FW-1001-001-FOpenClosed
We recommend that the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Grant Programs determine the fraud risk exposure in HUD's disaster recovery and mitigation programs and work with grantees to implement appropriate fraud mitigation activities.
2024-FW-0001 | Octubre 24, 2023
Preventing Duplication of Benefits When Using Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recover and Mitigation Funds
Community Planning and Development
- Status2024-FW-0001-001-AOpenClosed
We recommend that the Director, Office of Disaster Recovery, perform monitoring of or otherwise review grantees’ detailed procedures for preventing duplication of benefits for each grant activity within the first year after HUD signs the grant agreement or before grantees process applications for assistance, whichever occurs first.
- Status2024-FW-0001-001-BOpenClosed
We recommend that the Director, Office of Disaster Recovery, develop and implement a process to review grantees’ detailed procedures for preventing duplication of benefits and require grantees to correct any deficiencies identified in the review before grantees process applications for assistance.
- Status2024-FW-0001-001-COpenClosed
We recommend that the Director, Office of Disaster Recovery, for future grants, develop and implement procedures to ensure that all applicable requirements for preventing any duplication of benefits are included in the adequacy criteria, grantee certifications, and HUD review checklists supporting the certification.