Establish and implement a process to ensure that ONAP’s policies and procedures are effective. This process should address the identification of presidentially declared disaster areas and the requirement to contact disaster-affected housing entities. This process should also integrate with other Read More

Improve the Office of Public Housing’s procedures with written guidance to ensure that its staff formally tracks outreach to PHAs.

Provide adequate documentation to support the $21,373,462 in unreasonable and unnecessary obligated funds.

Strengthen and implement acquisition controls to ensure that proper cost and price documentation is obtained, adequate monitoring is conducted, adequate market research is conducted and that contractors are evaluated to assess their capability to perform work, and required contract documentation Read More

Seek reimbursement for $161,718 in ineligible funds disbursed for equipment and support services not specified in a scanning services contract.

We recommend that the Acting Director of OBGA work with HUD’s Office of General Counsel to create a codified Disaster Recovery program.

Designate additional HUD personnel and establish an internal reporting structure to complete DATA Act implementation, while sustaining reliable DATA Act reporting for later periods.

Validate, certify, and submit all reportable FHA and Ginnie Mae data through the DATA Act broker and report the data on USASpending.gov, including files A through F.

Complete data quality and error resolution for HUD’s loan programs to ensure inclusion in HUD’s subsequent submissions.

Allocate the financial resources to ensure that reconciliations are performed in the consolidation of source system data to the DATA Act submission files.

Establish and implement internal control policies and procedures for consolidating and reconciling data from HUD, Ginnie Mae, and FHA source systems are documented and include a governance structure, including roles, responsibilities, and personnel completing DATA Act reporting procedures.

Designate an unclaimed asset recovery official as required by the Treasury Financial Manual.

Work with Treasury to identify and obtain reimbursement for FHA’s and Ginnie Mae’s portion of the $1.9 million in HUD funds that Treasury collected.

Establish and implement policies and procedures to ensure that all of its unclaimed funds are claimed and the money is appropriately routed to put $2.2 million to better use. At a minimum, these policies and procedures should address what constitutes FHA and Ginnie Mae funds, ensure that these Read More

Implement adequate procedures and controls to ensure that all required data are complete, accurate, and reported in a timely manner. These procedures and controls should include but not be limited to ensuring that all transactions are recorded and reported within the proper period and listing the Read More

Implement adequate procedures and controls to ensure that all data elements are traceable to the source documentation.

Revise internal DATA Act policy and procedure documents to resolve inconsistencies to ensure full, appropriate, and consistent implementation of the DATA Act.

Provide support showing that it took proper remedial action regarding five NSP3 grantees that missed the expenditure deadline, thereby putting $3,379,269 to better use.

Work with 134 grantees (29 NSP1 and 105 NSP3) that reported missing expenditure deadlines in DRGR to ensure that expenditure information submitted is accurate and up to date.

We recommend that the General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development develop and implement a quality review process at the headquarters level to ensure consistent compliance with its policy for risk analysis, to include but not be limited to reviewing supporting Read More