OIG says more oversight needed for HUD travel cards | Office of Inspector General, Department of Housing and Urban Development

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October 04, 2016

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(Source: federalsoup.com) The Department of Housing and Urban Development needs to improve oversight of its travel and purchase card programs, according to a report from the HUD inspector general.

While HUD has put controls in place to identify cardholder travel card program violations, the report from HUD's Office of Inspector General said the agency did not successfully identify patterns of abuse.

The OIG found 3,671 instances of cardholders using their cards without an approved official temporary duty station travel document. The card transactions, which involved 275 cardholders, totaled $528,147. The OIG recommended that HUD review...