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Report Fraud, Waste and Abuse
  • Recommendation Number: 2023-FO-0009-002-C
  • Status: Closed
  • Date Issued: May 22, 2023
Closed Date:
September 29, 2023

Reassess the Homeless Assistance Grants program as part of the fiscal year 2023 risk assessment.

Publication Report

2023-FO-0009 | May 22, 2023

HUD Did Not Comply with the Payment Integrity Information Act of 2019

We audited the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) fiscal year 2022 compliance with the Payment Integrity Information Act of 2019 (PIIA) and implementation of Office of Management and Budget (OMB) guidance. PIIA was enacted to… more

Related Recommendations

Chief Financial Officer

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    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2023-FO-0009-001-A

    Establish an improper payment council within HUD that consists of senior accountable officials from across the Department with a role in the effort that would work to identify risks and challenges to compliance and identify solutions as a collaborative group.

  •  
    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2023-FO-0009-001-B
    Closed on March 12, 2024

    Develop and complete a detailed plan and timeline for completing compliant PIH-TBRA and PBRA program estimates and ensure that the improper payment council prioritizes completion of the plan in time for fiscal year 2023 reporting.

  •  
    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2023-FO-0009-001-C
    Closed on September 29, 2023

    Develop a secure platform for the collection and storage of PIIA data that contain PII and formally assign a staff with adequate training and skillsets to administer the data and application (including maintaining and managing access controls of a chosen application that will be used to store the PIIA data with PII).

  •  
    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2023-FO-0009-002-A
    Closed on September 29, 2023

    Reevaluate the methodology and reassess the weight assigned to each risk factor to ensure that appropriate weight is given to risks associated with non-Federal administrators or consider doing one risk assessment for HUD’s internal payment cycle and another risk assessment for the non-Federal entities that administer HUD’s program funds.

  •  
    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2023-FO-0009-002-B
    Closed on September 29, 2023

    Until program-specific fraud risk assessments are completed, revise the PIIA fraud risk questionnaire process to compensate for the lack of program-specific fraud risk assessments.