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We audited the Culver City Housing Agency’s (Agency) administration of its Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher program waiting list and housing assistance payment calculations. We initiated this review based upon information we received regarding waiting list administration and potential tenant eligibility issues. The Agency’s ongoing lease-up deficiency and lack of monitoring visits by the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) since 2004 were two other factors contributing to the audit. The objective of our audit was to determine whether the Agency followed HUD rules and regulations in determining tenant eligibility, housing assistance calculations, and waiting list administration. We determined that the Agency did not calculate housing assistance in accordance with HUD rules and regulations. We identified problems in five of the eight files reviewed, which resulted in $4,230 in housing assistance overpayments and $1,388 in housing assistance underpayments. We also determined that the Agency did not maintain and administer the waiting list in accordance with HUD rules and regulations. It ranked and selected residents without preference ahead of nonresidents with preference as part of two 2008 waiting list pulls and did not maintain a consistent, accurate, and complete waiting list, contrary to requirements of the administrative plan. We recommend that the Director of HUD’s Los Angeles Office of Public Housing require the Agency to (1) reimburse the program $4,230 from nonfederal funds for the overpayment of housing assistance, (2) reimburse the appropriate tenants $1,388 from program funds for the underpayment of housing assistance, (3) follow up on errors that extended beyond our audit scope, (4) update the administrative plan with more specificity regarding Section 8 policies and procedures, (5) implement procedures and controls to ensure that quality control reviews are performed adequately, and (6) submit documentation to HUD showing that future selections from the waiting list have been conducted according to the administrative plan.